Recognition and Regulation of Same-Sex Couples in the U. K.: An Exploratory Study of Civil Partnership

This paper investigates conflicting narratives available to lesbian and gay couples as a result of marriage and civil partnership. Whereas marginalisation may have made stories of exclusion particularly resonant for same-sex couples, marriage and civil partnership offer scope for new stories around inclusion and equality. Drawing on empirical research with married and civil partner same-sex couples in the UK, US and Canada, the paper contrasts couples’ atrocity stories with new stories about acceptance and inclusion. The paper argues that these new stories should be seen as triumph stories that point towards a tangible impact arising from marriage equality and civil partnership. However, the presence of atrocity stories alongside these triumph stories provides evidence of a more limited policy impact. In conclusion, the paper highlights the relevance of atrocity stories in an emerging area of public policy, as well as the likelihood of triumph stories being relevant in other contexts.

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Vanilla democracy: Sexuality, parenthood, and kinship in Greece

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460720978611 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 136346072097861

Author(s):

Aspa Chalkidou

Keyword(s):

Labor Law ◽

Same Sex ◽

Legal Recognition ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership ◽

State Authority ◽

Sexual Category

This article analyzes how parenthood gets established as a defined sexual category predicated on the exclusion of imagined deviance. Examining the Greek state's policies on reproduction, public discourses over non-heterosexual kinship, and the LGBT movement’s claims for the institutional recognition of same-sex parenthood, I analyze the circulation of sexual concepts and ideas through the cultural notion of parenthood, their imbrication with policies on family and reproduction, and their connection to broader national, political, and reproductive imaginaries. Through a careful reading of the “Greek case,” a nation where same-sex couples can now enter a civil partnership, but who nevertheless lack any legal recognition of same-sex parenting, I argue that political attachments to parenthood have implications for understanding other forms of institutionalized reproduction, including the academic re/production of scholarship on kinship and sexuality, labor law, and the reproduction of state authority.

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10. Civil Partnership Act 2004

Family Law 2020 ◽

10.1093/he/9780198855033.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 92-94

Author(s):

Jane Sendall ◽

Roiya Hodgson

Keyword(s):

Third Parties ◽

The State ◽

Legal Rights ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership

This chapter discusses the scope of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004) which came into force on 5 December 2005 and the formation of civil partnerships. It outlines civil partnership and same-sex marriage under The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013. It also explains the differences between civil partnership and marriage. The CPA 2004 enables same-sex couples to form legally recognized civil partnerships. Once a partnership has been formed, civil partners assume many legal rights and responsibilities for each other, third parties, and the State. It does explain that adultery, however, is not a fact to establish the ground for dissolution of a civil partnership as it is in marriage.

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10. Civil Partnership Act 2004

Family Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198860730.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 92-94

Author(s):

Roiya Hodgson

Keyword(s):

Third Parties ◽

The State ◽

Legal Rights ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership ◽

Opposite Sex

This chapter discusses the scope of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004) which came into force on 5 December 2005 and the formation of civil partnerships. It outlines civil partnership and same-sex marriage under The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013. It also explains the differences between civil partnership and marriage. Once a partnership has been formed, civil partners assume many legal rights and responsibilities for each other, third parties, and the State. It does explain that adultery, however, is not a fact to establish the ground for dissolution of a civil partnership as it is in marriage. The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 are also outlined.

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Romance, Rights, Recognition, Responsibilities and Radicalism: Same-Sex Couples' Views on Civil Partnership and Marriage

Out in Psychology ◽

10.1002/9780470713099.ch9 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 173-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Victoria Clarke ◽

Carole Burgoyne ◽

Maree Burns

Keyword(s):

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership

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Quo Vadis, Civil Partnership?

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review ◽

10.26686/vuwlr.v46i3.4904 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 755

Author(s):

Jens M Scherpe

Keyword(s):

Law Reform ◽

Marriage Equality ◽

Same Sex ◽

Current Position ◽

England And Wales ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Functional Equivalent ◽

Quo Vadis

This article discusses and compares the different concepts of civil partnership around the globe: either as functional equivalent to marriage for same-sex couples only or as an alternative to marriage for all couples. It analyses its declining role in the wake of widespread marriage equality reforms and then discusses, in particular, the current position of England and Wales, and Scotland, where ill-conceived law reform has led to a situation in which same-sex couples are privileged and opposite-sex couples are discriminated against.

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Money Management and Views of Civil Partnership in Same-Sex Couples: Results from a UK Survey of Non-Heterosexuals

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1111/j.1467-954x.2011.02032.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 685-706 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Carole Burgoyne ◽

Victoria Clarke ◽

Maree Burns

Keyword(s):

Money Management ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership

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10. Civil Partnership Act 2004

Family Law 2018 ◽

10.1093/he/9780198787716.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jane Sendall

Keyword(s):

Third Parties ◽

The State ◽

Legal Rights ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership

This chapter discusses the scope of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004) and the formation of civil partnerships. It also explains the differences between civil partnership and marriage. The CPA 2004 enables same-sex couples to form legally recognized civil partnerships. Once a partnership has been formed, civil partners assume many legal rights and responsibilities for each other, third parties, and the State.

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JUSTIFIABLE DISCRIMINATION: THE CASE OF OPPOSITE-SEX CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS

The Cambridge Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s0008197317000502 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 243-246 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andy Hayward

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

European Convention ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Civil Partnership ◽

Public Expression ◽

Unusual Position ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

English Law

OPPOSITE-SEX couples are prohibited from forming a civil partnership. Following the introduction of same-sex marriage, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 was not extended to opposite-sex couples, resulting in the unusual position that English law permits same-sex couples access to two relationship forms (marriage and civil partnership) yet limits opposite-sex couples to one (marriage). This discrimination was recently challenged in the courts by an opposite-sex couple, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who wish to enter a civil partnership owing to their deeply-rooted ideological opposition to marriage. Rejecting marriage as a patriarchal institution and believing that a civil partnership would offer a more egalitarian public expression of their relationship, the couple argued that the current ban constitutes a breach of Article 14 read in conjunction with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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