This article sets out to research and resolve the conceptual lag between the family as defined and recognised in law and the multiplicity of queer constellations of ‘intimate citizenship’ in which families are actually done. The focus is on adult unions outside of conjugal coupledom. The family law practices, and awareness and expectations of adults in such unions were analysed through 21 interviews and the content analysis of 40 documents and were projected against the applicable legal mould. The article then proposes to resolve the existing conceptual lag by advancing a conception of the family as a malleable, open-ended assemblage, in lieu of the current rigid status approach in family law, which is both under- and overinclusive. The proposed conception does justice to the increasing fluidity of family formations, which are not always already domestic, dyadic and sexual.

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解除夫妻关系的家庭法：夫妻共同体之外的成人结合的法律承认和保护

本文着手研究和解决法律所定义和承认的家庭与实际完成家庭的“亲密公民”的多种酷儿星座之间的概念滞后。重点是夫妻结合之外的成人结合。通过 21 次访谈和 40 份文件的内容分析，分析了家庭法实践以及成年人在此类结合中的意识和期望，并针对适用的法律模式进行了预测。然后，本文提议通过提出将家庭视为可塑的、开放式组合的概念来解决现有的概念滞后，以代替目前家庭法中既包含不足又包含过度的僵化地位方法。拟议的概念对家庭结构日益增加的流动性做出了公正的评价，