Civil Partnership Guide

FAQs

Still feeling a bit confused about the Civil Partnership Act and what it intrinsically means to you and your partner? Then check out some of the most commonplace queries we have handled over the past few months. Can't find what you're looking for? Try our legal section or further info can be found at www.stonewall.org.uk and www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/lgbt/partnership

Very few pieces of legislation have prompted so much comment as the Civil Partnership Act, perhaps because it was long overdue and eagerly awaited. Much has been said and written about the Act, so much so that the sheer volume of information may have caused some confusion.

The lesbian world is in turmoil. Do we wear heels or Doc Martens? Give tradition the finger along with our new wives? How on earth do we actually get married? If you’ve wondered about the same things, you’re certainly not the first. Don’t panic people! For where there’s no precedent, it means you can be the generation that sets it.

So you and your girlfriend have said ‘I do’, had a voracious night of wild, passionate love making, it’s now the morning after and where to start? Unless you or your partner has been previously married, this will be the first time that both of you enter a lifelong commitment together, so it’s important to get the details right, without getting in an unnecessary fluster that may strain relations.