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Partner - Legal definition?

  • 21-04-2011 11:38am
    #1
    but43r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering when are you considered "Partner" from the legal point of view?
    Have been searching this for a while now and can't find anything on it.
    Is it straight after you move in with your girlfriend/boyfriend or is there some other criteria?
    Could anyone care to enlighten me on the matter please?

    Thanks,
    B.


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  • #2
    Bride2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭Bride2012


    "domestic partner," usually two people living together, either homosexual or heterosexual, sharing lives and possessions, and not married.


  • #3
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭smelltheglove


    Or what used to be called common law spouse, maybe it still is. I remember having a conversation about it years ago, I was always under the impression that it was recognised after a couple of years but google says differently http://www.lawplus.ie/Cohabitation_Agreements.cohabitationagreeme.0.html


  • #4
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    but43r wrote: »
    Just wondering when are you considered "Partner" from the legal point of view?
    Have been searching this for a while now and can't find anything on it.
    Is it straight after you move in with your girlfriend/boyfriend or is there some other criteria?

    Up until this year unmarried couples had no legal status with each other. Now couples who have been living together for 3 years, or 2 years if they have a child together, have rights certain financial rights and obligations to and for each other. But there is no legal term of "partner."


  • #5
    margotdoherty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭margotdoherty


    Under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 couples living together are qualified as cohabitants after 5 years together or 2 years if they have a child together. They then qualify for rights to apply for certain rights - maintenance, property adjustment etc. This applies to opposite and same sex couples. The definition in the Act is "in an intimate and committed" relationship. See treoir.ie for more information.


  • #6
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    There is no legal definition of the term partner in relation to two people in a relationship together/co-habiting together etc etc.

    You might as well be just saying my other half! (in a legal sense!) Partner means as little from a legal perspective.


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  • #7
    margotdoherty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭margotdoherty


    You're right. there is no definition of partner in legislation. The term used is cohabitant.


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