Declarations as to marital and civil partnership status


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Practice notes

Declarations as to marital and civil partnership status


Published by a UUÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ Family expert

Practice notes
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An application for a declaration as to marital or Civil partnership status may be made where there is doubt as to the validity or recognition of a marriage or civil partnership, or of a Divorce/dissolution, Annulment or legal separation obtained in any country outside England and Wales. Subject to the requirements as to jurisdiction, a declaration can be sought in relation to a marriage or civil partnership which took place in either England and Wales or in a foreign jurisdiction.

See also Practice Notes: Recognition of overseas marriage or civil partnership and Recognition of overseas divorce or dissolution of civil partnership.

An application may be made for a declaration as to marital status under section 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 (FLA 1986). The application may be for a declaration that:

  1. •

    the marriage was at its inception a valid marriage

  2. •

    the marriage subsisted on a date specified in the application

  3. •

    the marriage did not subsist on a date so specified

An application may also be made for:

  1. •

    a declaration

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What does Civil partnership mean?

The legal relationship between two people of the same sex affording them broadly the same rights available to heterosexual couples who choose to marry.

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