{"id":2442,"date":"2016-01-23T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-an-alternative-family-but-the-law-disagrees\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T06:33:15","slug":"were-an-alternative-family-but-the-law-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-an-alternative-family-but-the-law-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re an alternative family but the law disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLivvy has been brought up by her mother and her aunt. The three have lived as a family since she was born \u2013 and it has worked beautifully. Now they are campaigning to get alternative family units like their recognised in lawCatherine and Ginda Utley have entirely shared the raising of Livvy; but they are not a gay couple and that has caused them somewhat of a problem. In fact, they are sisters, siblings who have stuck together through thick and thin. When Catherine unexpectedly found herself pregnant in 1993 and knew she would be raising her child alone, Ginda didn\u2019t hesitate to offer to step in and be by her side.Two decades on they are as secure and stable a family unit as you could hope to find, and now Livvy has graduated they are all back together again, in the terraced house in Battersea, south London that they bought together when Livvy was a toddler. Continue reading…
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