Part 1 Financial Relief
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 7 Financial Relief in England and Wales after Overseas Dissolution etc of a Civil Partnership

Section 72(4)

Part 1 Financial Relief

Part applies where civil partnership has been dissolved etc overseas

1

(1)     This Part of this Schedule applies where—

(a)     a civil partnership has been dissolved or annulled, or the civil partners have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in an overseas country, and

(b)     the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is entitled to be recognised as valid in England and Wales.

(2)     This Part of this Schedule applies even if the date of the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is earlier than the date on which the Part comes into force.

(3)     In this Schedule “overseas country†means a country or territory outside the British Islands.

(4)     In this Part of this Schedule “child of the family†means—

(a)     a child of both of the civil partners, and

(b)     any other child, other than a child placed with them as foster parents or by a local authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both the civil partners as a child of their family.

Either civil partner may make application
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