Sentences with phrase «provides civil marriage»

This affidavit provides a clear picture of how each jurisdiction provides civil marriage services and how they accommodate same - sex marriages.

As a part of our island wedding packages, we will provide a Civil Marriage Officer; however, a Clergyman or Magistrate would be at an additional fee.

Not exact matches

Civil unions (providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name) are better, because a «separate but equal» institution is always constitutional.

That should be the only way these unions are eligible for the rights and protections provided to civil marriages.

They also have a hard time with not endorsing gay marriage and will lie and say that civil unions do nt provide them the same protection which is a lie and some states do in fact have these laws on the books.

Suffice to say, our President WILL get gun control, health care reform, and gay marriage — all providing civil rights just as President Lincoln would want.

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.

As soon as is reasonably practicable after the registration of a marriage under Part 7 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995, or the registration of a civil union under Part 7A of that Act, the Registrar - General must provide to the Electoral Commission the following information in respect of each of the parties to the marriage or civil union:

The (four and a half pages of) legislation which introduced the Marriage Allowance (and more in the current Finance (No. 2) Bill) allows it to be claimed provided neither spouse nor civil partner is liable to income tax at the higher or additional rate.

«At one time I thought civil unions afforded the opportunity to provide the ability for same sex couples to attain the status they wanted,» says Saland, who voted against same - sex marriage when a similar bill was defeated in 2009.

«Our faith traditions teach us that all people are children of God, deserving of love, dignity and equal treatment, and we the undersigned therefore believe that gay and lesbian New Yorkers in committed, loving relationships should be able to protect each other with the critical safety - net provided by civil marriage.

In section 13 (4) Equality Act the law expressly allows businesses to treat people differently on the basis of marriage or civil partnership provided that those who are civil partners or married are treated more favourably.

«Gideon Speaks, named after the landmark Supreme Court case which requires that counsel be provided for all indigent criminal defendants is a marriage of my love of the law and writing and discusses issues related to criminal and civil rights law in NYC.

By the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004), same - sex couples were provided with a formal mechanism for recognising and giving legal effect to their relationships, and to confer upon them the same rights and obligations as entailed by marriage.

However, in Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] All ER (D) 210 (Apr) the President of the Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, distinguished between marriage and civil partnership on the basis that the former must be between a man and a woman as provided for in the MCA 1973, legislation which was originally debated in the late 1960s at a time when homosexuality had only been legalised by the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

A civil union is also a legal status that provides many of the same protections that a marriage offers to both same - sex and heterosexual couples.

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.

In a companion piece, Same - Sex Marriage Foes Say Divorces Prove Their Point, Wyatt reports that two high - profile break - ups — Julie and Hillary Goodridge, the named plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case that legalized same - sex marriage, and Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson, the couple in the nation's first same - sex civil union — are providing fodder for opponents of gay mMarriage Foes Say Divorces Prove Their Point, Wyatt reports that two high - profile break - ups — Julie and Hillary Goodridge, the named plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case that legalized same - sex marriage, and Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson, the couple in the nation's first same - sex civil union — are providing fodder for opponents of gay mmarriage, and Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson, the couple in the nation's first same - sex civil union — are providing fodder for opponents of gay marriagemarriage.

A discussion from the post ensued, and John Gregory's comments into how civil marriage ceremonies are provided in Ontario required me to delve deeper into the issue.

The Casebook also includes court decisions from Canada: Haig v. Canada (1992)(omission of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act is discriminatory); Egan v. Canada (1995)(whether exclusion of same - sex relationships from the definition of common law spouse violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 15 prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation); Vriend v. Alberta (1998)(college laboratory instructor dismissed because of his homosexuality); Hall v. Powers (2002)(student refused permission to attend a prom at a Catholic high school with his boyfriend); Halpern et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (2003)(whether denial of marriage licenses to same - sex couples based on the common law definition of marriage was discriminatory under the Charter; a postscript indicates that the 2005 Civil Marriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of mamarriage licenses to same - sex couples based on the common law definition of marriage was discriminatory under the Charter; a postscript indicates that the 2005 Civil Marriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of mamarriage was discriminatory under the Charter; a postscript indicates that the 2005 Civil Marriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of maMarriage Act provided for gender - neutral definition of marriagemarriage).

Article 393 of the Civil Code provides that «In marriage, both spouses retain their respective names, and exercise their respective civil rights under those names&raCivil Code provides that «In marriage, both spouses retain their respective names, and exercise their respective civil rights under those names&racivil rights under those names».

With the singular exception of parenting (where reform is urgently needed), civil partnership provides almost all of the responsibilities and rights of civil marriage.

The position of the Equality Authority is that civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples is the full equality solution, but we welcome the Civil Partnership Bill as it will provide immediate legal solutions to the many urgent and pressing problems which gay and lesbian couples face in the absence of legal recognition of their relationscivil marriage for gay and lesbian couples is the full equality solution, but we welcome the Civil Partnership Bill as it will provide immediate legal solutions to the many urgent and pressing problems which gay and lesbian couples face in the absence of legal recognition of their relationsCivil Partnership Bill as it will provide immediate legal solutions to the many urgent and pressing problems which gay and lesbian couples face in the absence of legal recognition of their relationships.

Ironically, our civil partnership legislation provides more rights than US state - based civil marriage because the latter can not include federal rights in critical areas such as immigration, tax and health benefits.

«To move to marriage now and provide full Constitutional equality for lesbian and gay people is not a massive legislative leap; it is an incremental step building on the success of Civil Partnerships» concluded Rose.

Where the birth, marriage, civil partnership or death occurred outside the State, the person must provide the relevant certificates as evidence.

With the exception of parenting, where reform is urgently needed, civil partnership provides almost all of the responsibilities and rights of civil marriage.

The GRO provides information on birth, marriage, civil partnership, death, adoption and stillbirth records and registrations, as well as guidance on researching your family history and the General Register Office Indexes.

As more states enact legislation providing legal recognition to same - sex couples, you may wonder about the differences between same - sex marriage and civil unions (or domestic partnerships), as well as how these laws might affect a REALTOR ® association.