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The Civil Partnership Act 2004

The Civil Partnership Act 2004

The Civil Partnership Act 2004

A Practical Guide
July 2006
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Paperback
9780521617925
$122.00
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    This authoritative guide to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is written by Paul Mallender and Jane Rayson, two family law barristers with a combined practice experience of over fifty years. The Civil Partnership Act 2004: A Practical Guide provides clear, concise explanations of the new legislation. The book covers the lifetime of a relationship, from entering into the civil partnership, its consequences in terms of financial and family arrangements, to practical guidance on how the partnership is dissolved and the consequences of breakdown and death.

    • A practical, user-friendly guide to an important new piece of social legislation
    • Written by practising barristers with extensive experience of family law
    • Provides timely guidance to the new civil partnership legislation

    Product details

    July 2006
    Paperback
    9780521617925
    354 pages
    229 × 153 × 22 mm
    0.571kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction to the Act
    • 2. What is a civil partnership? Formation by registration in England and Wales: eligibility
    • 3. Pre-registration procedure: standard procedure
    • house-bound and detained partners
    • certain non-residents and other special cases
    • 4. Registration in England and Wales: the standard procedure
    • the special procedure
    • 5. Registration outside the UK by Order in Council
    • 6. Overseas relationships treated as civil partnerships
    • 7. Financial and property implications of civil partnership
    • 8. Children
    • 9. Relationship between the Civil Partnership Act and the Gender Recognition Act
    • 10. The ending of the partnership: orders for dissolution
    • 11. Nullity and other proceedings
    • 12. Offences
    • 13. Domestic violence and occupation of the home
    • 14. Financial consequences on breakdown
    • 15. Financial relief in England and Wales after an overseas dissolution
    • 16. Miscellaneous.
      Authors
    • Paul Mallender

      Paul Mallender is a specialist in family work in the High Court and in all other jurisdictions. His work includes Children Act and child support cases, ancillary relief, judicial separation, nullity, wardship and child abuse. He appears regularly for several local authorities as well as for parents of children in public law cases. His main area of practice is, however, ancillary relief.

    • Jane Rayson

      Jane Rayson was called to the Bar in 1982 and is head of chambers at 2, Gray's Inn Square. She practises exclusively in family law and her work is (broadly) divided equally between children and ancillary relief. Jane is a trustee of the Bar Pro Bono Unit and sits on its management committee. She is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the International Bar Association.