Civil partnerships registration has come into being and has proved a welcome legislation for many couples who have been together for some time and are only now able to put their relationship on a legal footing. Cvil partnerships are for the same sex couples, offering them he choice of simple signing or along the same lines as a weddings.

All the legal preliminaries are similar to marriage and entering into one of these legal partnerships gives couples the same rights of property, pensions and so on that married hetero-seual couples enjoy. Find our more in our Civil Partnerships sections.