Provisions for Civil Partnership
Provisions include serious duties and obligations as well as legal rights and protections.
For example:
- duty to provide reasonable maintenance for civil partners and children of the family
- assessment, in the same way as spouses, for child support
- equitable treatment for the purposes of life assurance
- employment and pension benefits
- recognition under intestacy rules
- access to fatal accidents compensation
- protection from domestic violence
- recognition for immigration and nationality purposes
- treatment in the same way as spouses for all tax purposes