2006-10-07 10:16:15 · 10 answers · asked by angel_fire3 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom became available to same-sex couples in December 2005 and grant rights and responsibilities virtually identical to marriage.
Registered Civil Partners are entitled to "a range of property rights, the same exemption as married couples on inheritance tax, social security and pension benefits, and also the ability to get parental responsibility for a partner's children", [1] as well as responsibility for reasonable maintenance of one's partner and their children, tenancy rights, full life insurance recognition, next-of-kin rights in hospitals, and others.
There is a formal process for dissolving partnerships akin to divorce.
2006-10-09 21:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by flymetothemoon279 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Civil partnership is a commitment between two same sex people
basically a replacement for marriage, but with the same rights. The person becomes your next of kin. It secures a person left behind after one partners death to legally be able to inherit any estate. This applies also to a separation of a civil partnership.
2006-10-07 10:31:02 · answer #2 · answered by biggi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A civil partnership is a relationship between two people of the same sex, formed when they register as civil partners of each other, which ends only on death, dissolution or annulment.
Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom became available to same-sex couples in December 2005 and grant rights and responsibilities virtually identical to marriage.
2006-10-07 10:17:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a civil partnership is title and a union with a contract that was signed in front of judge between 2 consenting adults that gives legitimacy to a relationship.and that they will live as married couple and can only be voided thru death or legal annulment
2006-10-07 10:22:49 · answer #4 · answered by Lionel M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
domestic partner, while it doesn't have all the benefits of a marriage, it does have a few of the protections, it is basically a contract for shared assets and liabilities and has all the rights and responsibilities similar to a business ... used by non-related people who are sharing an asset or debt to protect themselves from the other partner not fulfilling that persons partnership obligations
2006-10-07 10:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by casurfwatcher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is instead of a marriage, it is in a non-religious place (town hall etc.) anyone can get a civil partnership, homosexual or hetrosexual and it has the same legal rites as marriage
2006-10-07 10:17:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a kind of marriage between 2 gays that makes them a couple legally, so in the event of death they are classed as next of kin as a husband or wife would be classed. And rightly so!
2006-10-07 10:27:20 · answer #7 · answered by Welshchick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just another word for "marriage" EXCEPT you don't have the tax benefits on the federal level (and some states don't allow it either).
2006-10-07 10:23:33 · answer #8 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its marriage without the word marriage
2006-10-07 22:21:53 · answer #9 · answered by nahkhsi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is so pooftahs and Lesboes can get hitched and pretend to be married...
2006-10-07 10:25:23 · answer #10 · answered by Sir Nickle Barsteward 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋