Sentences with phrase «as civil partnerships»

Partnerships registered abroad after 16 November 2015 are not recognised as civil partnerships in Ireland.

These figures do not account for the many more hundreds of Irish citizens who were married or entered a civil partnership abroad whose marriages and civil partnerships are automatically recognised in Ireland as Civil Partnerships.

The Minister for Justice and Equality made orders recognising as civil partnerships classes of legal relationships which were registered in other countries and which met certain criteria.

Partnerships registered abroad since 16 May 2016 are not recognised as civil partnerships in Ireland.

We understand why many couples wish to convert, although the legal protections marriage provides are the same as civil partnerships and therefore the benefit in converting is personal rather than legal.

As civil partnerships offer the same legal treatment to couples as marriage, some people may wonder why there is such a push for same - sex marriage to be legalised in Northern Ireland.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said he was concerned that a lot of gay and lesbian voters would «bank» the reforms brought in by Labour, such as civil partnerships and a lower age of consent, and vote Conservative.

Same - sex marriages performed in Great Britain and across the world are recognised as civil partnerships in Northern Ireland.

Bishop Mark will also express concern that the Government may «further undermine» marriage as it considers proposals to reform marriage registration for the first time since 1837, including a right of heterosexuals to register relationships as civil partnerships instead of marriages.

New laws in the United Kingdom have allowed gay couples to be married, known as a civil partnership, following in the steps of other countries such as Canada, Netherlands and Spain.

In order to have a ceremony that is recognised legally as a civil partnership you would have to marry in the UK and then have a commitment ceremony (blessing) in Cyrpus.

A partnership registered from 16 May 2016 onwards will not be recognised as a civil partnership in Ireland.

As with a divorce, this process is best handled by an experienced family law solicitor, as a civil partnership entails the provision of similar rights over property and finance as a marriage and can have similar bearing on the ongoing care of any dependent children.

Not exact matches

He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are treated as spouses under the applicable state law, will each be treated as a spouse as defined in this policy for state law purposes.

However, individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

A public notary in Brazil has registered a three - person partnership as a legally recognized civil union.

In European Union law, civil law of most member states and judge - made law in the United States, the right to marry has been «modernized» so as to include partnerships and same - sex unions.

In wider society it is now common for those entering into civil partnership to be regarded as getting married [7].

The Civil Partnership Act, passed in November 2004, raised homosexual relationships to the same status as marriage by granting the same rights to couples entering a civil partnership as to spouses entering marrCivil Partnership Act, passed in November 2004, raised homosexual relationships to the same status as marriage by granting the same rights to couples entering a civil partnership as to spouses entering marrcivil partnership as to spouses entering marriage.

Civil partnerships celebrated widely as marriage.

This invited those engaged in government, business, education, arts and media, science and medicine, intergovernmental organizations and the organizations of civil society, as well as those in positions of religious and spiritual leadership, to «build new, reliable, and more imaginative partnerships towards the shaping of a better world.»

The survey has been released as the first Scottish couple changes their civil partnership into a marriage after a change in the law.

He's in a civil partnership, but hasn't spent time publicly objecting to the Church of England's guidelines which require him — as a gay man — to be celibate.

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

Hence Catholic adoption agencies have been closed down, individuals such as Gary McFarlane (who refused to give relationship counselling to same - sex couples) and Lillian Ladele (who refused to register civil partnerships) both recently lost their jobs and their appeals.

If marriage and civil partnerships are all about commitment, as David Cameron insists, then there is no difference, apart from the sexual aspect, between the relationship of a same - sex couples and that of equally loving, cohabiting sisters.

As one Telegraph columnist who is in a civil partnership wrote recently.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

Where two women are in civil partnership, the non-impregnated partner will be regarded as a parent, unless she formally objects to being regarded as such.

The CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

The report calls for the creation of innovative public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations, in areas from crop technology to the provision of school feeding programs to help bring about sustainable food security throughout Asia.

Proof must be provided to a court that «irretrievable breakdown» of the civil partnership has happened, citing specific «supporting facts» such as unreasonable behaviour or separation for at least two years, before the partnership can be legally «dissolved».

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendmenAs Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendmenas the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

The best analogy for the differential treatment of same - sex couples by offering them civil partnership as opposed to civil marriage is in the systematic prejudice suffered by African - Americans in the United States.

Moreover, as Professor Leslie Green shown in a recent programme at the British Academy (Gay Marriage: Prospects and Realities, 29 May 2012), marriage offers a number of advantages not offered by same - sex civil partnerships, including portability of status, a broader understanding of the couple's status, as well as the potential for religious recognition, depending upon the religious group involved.

«Civil partnerships are called marriage as well.

Another quibble: you assert, without arguing for it, that «The best analogy for the differential treatment of same - sex couples by offering them civil partnership as opposed to civil marriage is in the systematic prejudice suffered by African - Americans in the United States».

In the same breath as defending the right of the Church of England to discriminate in employment, he wished to deny to Quakers, Unitarians, and Liberal Jews any right to celebrate civil partnerships among their own members, in their own premises, according to their own consciences, and using their own liturgies.

I'm just waiting for which dumbass Tory right winger will table an amendment saying that people in civil partnerships shouldn't get it as they're not really married.

Just as same - sex couples were barred from civil marriage, opposite - sex couples were (and still are) prohibited from having a civil partnership.

Sometimes these are at odds with each other, so that some negotiation between them is necessary, as with the introduction of civil partnerships.

As the government moved to smooth the passage of the bill by delaying attempts to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples, Hammond said there was no huge demand for same - sex marriage.

He added that MPs would have to take a view «as to whether having heterosexual civil partnerships is or is not going to enhance the concept of marriage».

Under the scheme, married couples on basic rate tax pay as well as around 15,000 couples in civil partnerships, would be eligible to claim this tax allowance.

The defence secretary spoke out as the coalition was accused of spoiling tactics after it responded to a call for heterosexual couples to be granted the same rights to enter into civil partnerships by announcing plans for a review that would be delayed for five years once the legislation is passed.

ANDREW HARROP: As the Supreme Court hears the case for equal civil partnerships, our general secretary argues that inequality runs deep within the institution of marriage.

As equality minister, she published the proposals for civil partnerships.