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Children in Quebec can have more than two parents, according to a Superior Court decision that now gives the provincial government 12 months to amend the Civil Code to legally recognize this type of family structure. 

In a ruling issued on Thursday, Judge Andres C. Garin examined complaints from two separate cases.

The plaintiffs in those cases were La Coalition des familles LGBT+ — a group that seeks to have all families recognized regardless of how they’re formed — as well as three families who were unable to put the names of three parents on their children’s birth certificates.