In France, there's a law (the PACS) that allows people to live together, as partnership, or a married couple basically, (even same sex couples) but without getting married, couples are recognised but they don't have the same rights or requirements as married people. Is there anything like this in UK?
PD: it's not got anything to do with allowing same sex couples getting married, this started in 1999.
2006-10-09 10:37:09 · 9 answers · asked by Amy G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
WHY CANT YOU READ AND ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION??!!
There's no issue to discuss here, Im asking : is there anything like the PACS in UK.? It lets couples live toguether, forming a kind of partnership, without being married, If it does exists what is it called and how can i find out more
2006-10-09 10:50:29 · update #1
I think it's called a Civil Partnership, yes it does apply to same sex couples but may also apply to heterosexual couples too, you'd have to check it out.
2006-10-09 10:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. it doesn't exist in the UK. However, in the event of a break up of the association, the courts will attribute rights to the people involved over property which they occupied jointly and assets which they brought into the 'partnership'. These rights are not, however, legal rights as in France, but equitable rights, i.e. rights conferred by the court in the interests of fairness and justice. They only really come into their own when the relationship is dissolved and the parties are asserting their interests before the court.
2006-10-09 10:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So in France there's a specific law which allows people to live together without being married, eh? Wow! France must have been a stern and repressive place to live before that law was passed. Here we just go ahead and do it. We don't need any law to give us permission.
2006-10-09 10:48:47 · answer #3 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep in Scotland anyway. You can have a wife in Common Law, basically if she lives with you - I think it's for 3 years- then she is as good as married in the eyes of the law. But the term used is "marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute." and I think it only applies to Scotland. I think the term "common law wife" is obsolete now.
So watch out!
2006-10-09 10:50:44 · answer #4 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I consider your question as a good issue to be discussed by the modern public.
2006-10-09 10:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by Walt. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it's exactly the same in the uk.
2006-10-09 10:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by sundancer332003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sadly!
2006-10-09 10:38:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do.
2006-10-09 11:19:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they do,
2006-10-09 10:47:04 · answer #9 · answered by diamonds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋