Pension to member of same-sex couples in Brazil

Pension to member of same-sex couples in Brazil is legal according to the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil, as stated in a court decision, which came to the country's LGBT history on February 9, 2010.
Proved the existence of affective union between persons of the same-sex, one must recognize the right of the surviving partner to receive benefits under the private and public pension plan, with the same effect operated by the stable. The unprecedented decision, until then this benefit was only granted within the General System of Social Security, is the 3rd Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice in Case reported by Minister Nancy Andrighi.
Nancy Andrighi said that recognition of this relationship as a family unit must be preceded by a clear demonstration of the presence of the essential elements of the characterization stable. "Demonstration of coexistence between two persons of the same-sex, public, continuous and permanent, established with the goal of starting a family, there will, therefore, recognition of such a union as a family unit with proper attribution of the legal consequences arising from it."
In a vote of 14 pages in which he approached doctrines, laws and principles, among them the dignity of the human person, the Minister stressed that the affective union formed between people of same-sex can not be ignored in a society with structures of each family life increasingly complex, to avoid that because of prejudice, are suppressed human rights of those involved.

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