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Cohabitation & Divorce: Civil Partnerships

Pre-Registration Agreements

Before entering into a civil partnership you and your partner may want to consider preparing a pre-registration agreement. In the same way as a pre-nuptial agreement, a pre-registration agreement can set out how you would wish property and assets to be divided if you should separate or dissolve your civil partnership in the future.

The status of pre-registration agreements and pre-nuptial agreements is not clear-cut in this country. However, there have been recent cases where courts have upheld some or all of the terms in a pre-nuptial agreement. Although there have only been a few court cases dealing with these types of agreements, our experience suggests that they are helpful in providing evidence of what the parties had intended at the time of their partnership.
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