Woman Plead to Court To Allow Her Marry Her Step-Son
Eric
Holder, 45, and Elisabeth Lorentz, 48,
appeared
in court in the northeastern city of
Metz in
a bid to overturn a law stipulating
that
parents and their children whether natural or not cannot marry.
The law
states that exceptions to the rule
can be
made by presidential decree for unions like the one envisaged by Holder and
Lorentz,
but only if they have the blessing of
the
person through whom they are linked.
In this
case, that would be Holder’s father and Lorentz’s ex-husband, who is now dead.
The
court in Metz will announce its ruling on 26 June.
“I hope
we can ultimately marry and create a real reconstructed family like thousands
of others that exist today”, Lorentz said after the hearing.
Lorentz,
who married Eric Holder’s father in 2003 and divorced him in 2012, said she
would take the fight “right up to the European Court of Human Rights if needed”
and win her case.
Lorentz
has a 17-year old daughter from Holder’s father, while Eric Holder has a
22-year old daughter from a former marriage.
Their
lawyer Mathieu Ehrhardt said the French law was flawed, adding that the
European Court of Human Rights had rapped Britain in 2005 over a similar case.
