Civil partnerships are an alternative for couples who may feel that marriage is not right for them.
If you’re not sure which option is right for you, you can check the national government website for more information Couples who form a civil partnership have a new legal status, that of ‘civil partner’. This makes your relationship legally official.
Benefits that civil partnership registration gives you as a couple include:
- access to benefits, such as social security and state pension
- the right to benefit from a deceased partner’s pension
- recognition under inheritance rules
- ability to succeed to tenancy rights
- next-of-kin visiting rights in hospital
- ability to gain parental responsibility for each other’s children
- right to register the death of a partner
- employment benefits
- recognition under intestacy rules
Citizens Advice expands on the legal benefits of civil partnership status.