Tasmania's Legislative Council has voted unanimously to make the legal recognition of lesbian co-mothers retrospective to 2003.
The vote followed the unanimous acceptance to legally recognise two mothers on a birth certificate.
The law was originally rejected in 2003 when gay and lesbian couples were first recognised in Tasmanian law.
Rodney Croome from the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group said it is an important step forward.
"It means those children will now have the benefits which include of course greater legal, emotional and financial security of having two legal parents, both of them mothers, rather than just one legal parent, that has been the case up until now which of course has been their biological mother."
Windermere MLC Ivan Dean said not only would the law recognise parents who are supporting children without legal obligation, but it would also streamline the adoption process.
"Rather than go through the costly process, the drawn-out process of applying for adoption and doing it that way, and going through the Family Court, they will now be able to make the application to the registrar and if they can satisfy the register of their significant relationship, then it will be a fairly easy process for them to be included," he said
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