Civil Partnership
Impediments to a Civil Partnership
There is an impediment to a civil partnership if:
- One or both of the parties to the intended civil partnership will be under the age of 18 years of age
on the date of the intended civil partnership registration.
- One or both of the parties to the intended civil partnership is, or both are, already party to a subsisting civil
partnership or a subsisting marriage.
- One or both of the parties does not give free and informed consent.
- The parties are not of the same sex.
- The civil partnership would be void by virtue of the prohibited degrees of relationship.
A person may not enter a civil partnership with someone within the prohibited degrees of relationship, as set out
in the table below. Relationships within that table should be construed as including relationships in the half-blood
(e.g. sibling includes a sibling where there is only one parent in common etc.), and all the relationships include
relationships and former relationships by adoption.
- A man may not enter a civil partnership with his:
- Grandfather
- Grandparent's brother
- Father
- Father's brother
- Mother's brother
- Brother
- Nephew
- Son
- Grandson
- Grandnephew
- A woman may not enter a civil partnership with her:
- Grandmother
- Grandparent's sister
- Mother
- Mother's sister
- Father's sister
- Sister
- Niece
- Daughter
- Granddaughter
- Grandniece
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