Civil partnership for opposite sex couples?

Armaiti · 2013-03-01 21:28:29

Hi, sorry for the dumb question but I come from abroad and in my country civil partnerships don't exist and I know very little about them. I read that from 2010 in Ireland is possible for same sex couples to register with civil partnership. Is there anything similar for opposite sex couples? I have been living with my…

01-03-2013 10:28PM

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Armaiti

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Hi,
sorry for the dumb question but I come from abroad and in my country civil partnerships don't exist and I know very little about them.

I read that from 2010 in Ireland is possible for same sex couples to register with civil partnership. Is there anything similar for opposite sex couples?

I have been living with my boyfriend for three years and a half, we still don't want to get married yet but we'd like to be seen as a couple by the law.
That would really simplify a lot of paperwork. I recently applied for PPS number but the house contract is signed by my boyfrend and bill are under his name: now he have to write a letter stating that we're living together.

Apart from all this, it would be a nice thing for us too.

Thanks in advance!

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#2 02-03-2013 09:24PM

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See thread from 3 weeks ago.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=83022564

Ps, you cannot choose between them. Same sex = civil partnership, opposite sex = marriage.

Not sure what you mean when you say you want to be seen as a couple by the law, but not married.

Do you mean, tax, inheritance, next of kin... Because that's called marriage. Which bits do you NOT want?

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#3 02-03-2013 10:01PM

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Thanks, I've already read that thread but now I have the confirmation I was looking for

I know that could sound like delaying a commitment, but I wanted some more information because in Italy Parliament voted for a law about civil partnership for same sex and opposite sex couples. Unfortunately it did not pass, not even for same sex couples, but this is another story.

We are young (well, late twenties) and would like not to be called "husband" and "wife" for some other years
Nothing against marriage itself, but I'd like to choose between getting married and living together without giving up some rights (like, for example, visiting at the hospital and be seen as a proper family).
I have been in Ireland only for about two months, I don't know how bureaucracy works here (so far definitely better than in my country). Back in Italy we had no rights at all.

I always hear about couples who "had to get married because of the children/civil rights/etc.". I don't like how this sounds, people should be free to marry because they feel it, not to obtain civil rights.
This is just my opinion, obviously. I don't mean to offend anyone

Thank you for your answer anyway, I think we'll wait some time to get married then.

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#4 05-03-2013 09:12AM

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The whole point about marriage is that it's the mechanism by which a couple take what would otherwise be an entirely private relationship between the two of them and make it a public concern, seeking social, legal and adminstrative recognition, accommodation and support. From the state's point of view, it's contradictory to say that you want public recognition, etc, of your conjugal partnership but you don't want to be married. Marriage is the public recognition of your conjugal partnership.

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