Sentences with phrase «civil marriage becomes»

Civil marriage becomes a more extending form of family.

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The pledge argues for a voluntary withdrawal from the civil side of marriage as same - sex marriage increasingly becomes the law of the land.

Legal recognition of marriage would become a purely civil matter.

The 43 - year - old from the evangelical National Restoration Party, became widely popular candidate after denouncing a court ruling calling on the Central American country to give civil marriage rights to same - sex couples.

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

Since our state doesn't recognize a same - sex couple with marriage, civil unions or a domestic partnership, we knew we would face extra hurdles to becoming parents.

Duprey voted «no» in 2007, but then changed her position when he measure came up again in 2009, explaining she had become convinced that civil unions would not provide gay couples with the same equality as marriage.

«Over the past few months I've spoken to a lot of LGB and T people and campaign groups, and it quickly became clear that there is a real desire to address the differences between civil marriage and civil partnerships,» equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said.

But Miller indicated that the review could end up leading to the abolition of civil partnerships once gay marriage becomes legal.

Another sign of seismic change: civil unions, once regarded by gay - marriage supporters as a best - we - can - hope - for compromise, have become a fallback position of the anti-marriage camp.

What truly derails the film is its court - room / civil rights slant which revolves around Ted trying to become a «real boy» so he and his new wife Tami - Lyn (the excellent Jessica Barth) can become parents in a bid to save their marriage.

Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.

With the advent of same - sex marriage in March 2014 (but not in Northern Ireland), civil partnerships may become less common, and the law on dissolution is anyway very similar to that for divorce.

Sexual orientation became a prohibited ground of discrimination in the mid-1990s, following which same - sex marriage became legal in Ontario in 2002, and in eight other provinces and territories in rapid succession thereafter, until the introduction of the federal Civil Marriage Act in 2005 legalized same - sex marriage throughout the marriage became legal in Ontario in 2002, and in eight other provinces and territories in rapid succession thereafter, until the introduction of the federal Civil Marriage Act in 2005 legalized same - sex marriage throughout the Marriage Act in 2005 legalized same - sex marriage throughout the marriage throughout the country.

Like other same - sex couples with a previous foreign civil marriage or partnership, their union became recognised under Irish law since last Thursday.

Becoming an Irish citizen through marriage or civil partnership If you are a non-Irish national who is married to or in a civil partnership with an Irish citizen, you may be able to become an Irish citizen if you fulfil certain conditions.

That visa requires her to confirm all previous marriages, and her plans to marry or become a civil partner within 6 months of arriving in the UK.

However, under the Marriage Act 2015, it is now possible for same - sex couples to become legally married and you can no longer register a civil partnership in Ireland.

As civil ceremonies become more popular than religious weddings, we explore the idea of marriage preparation and the role it has in modern weddings.

However, church weddings have become less popular over the past few decades and civil ceremonies have taken over as the most common type of marriage ceremony in the UK.

When a couple with children decides to dissolve a marriage or civil union, they shift from being a Couple to becoming a Parenting Team.

In those cases, the marital therapy process will become a period of healing the relationship and empowering the spouses as individuals, but with the end result of reaching the least painful and the most civil dissolution of marriage as possible.

you bought it after you married or became civil partners, or if you both lived in it as a family home before the marriage or civil partnership.

Since 21st December 2005 same - sex couples have had the option to go through a ceremony, not dissimilar to that for a civil marriage, and become civil partners.