What's The Point Of Straight Couples Entering A Civil Partnership?

[sp1814]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42916294

If civil partnerships are exactly the same as a marriage - why not just get married?

[mikey4444]

No point whatsoever !

[jno]

he's envious: "If those people can have civil partnerships, why can't I? It's gross discrimination against decent people like me!"

Or maybe he just has shares in a company that prints registry books.

[Hopkirk]

I think it's for couples who don't want to be married, but way to ensure inheritance / pensions / life insurance payouts go to the right people after one dies.

[pixie374]

Marriage seems religious and too old-fashioned. I was quite shocked to see in that link that father's names are added on, but not the mother's? That can't still be right now?

[237SJ]

They probably just want the tax benefits

[Togo]

Perhaps Heterosexual couples, in a permanent relationship, would like to feel that they enjoy the same rights as same gender pairings.

[Peter Pedant]

there isnt one

the civl partnership was to put gay couples in the same position in civil law as married persons
and no one realised that someone else would want one

then a straight couple thought
oo that would be nice
and was told they couldnt
so sort of got the bit between the teeth

non consummation is not a grounds for dissolution
divorce is called dissolution
erm and I think that is it.....

[Prudie]

Can't you then turn that round and say if gay couples can have a civil partnership why did they want the right to get married? I guess it's about equality for all.

[Cloverjo]

OH suggested it to me when civil partnerships first came in. I said No. It seemed like a Marriage Lite, without the full commitment required. So no chance from me.

[bednobs]

what benefits ca be conferred with a civil partnership that can't be got in another way?

[Cloverjo]

Maybe it's easier to end the relationship - regarding finances etc. - if it's a civil partnership rather than a full-blown marriage. Should it come to that.

[mikey4444]

Most people seem to get married these days, of the few that bother, without any religious content whatsoever.

So why not just have a civil wedding ?

This is all about this couples desire for everything to be me, me, me !

[-Talbot-]

Which couple?

[Cloverjo]

Mikey, by civil wedding, I assume you mean just 'not in a church'. That's not necessarily the same as a civil partnership.

[andres]

Which certificate is being referred to when they say the mother's name should be added?

[Peter Pedant]

It seemed like a Marriage Lite

it was designed as marriage wivout da lardy daa - Latin mass, kyrie eleison, smells and bells - tinga ling.

so it was based on the civil bits of the Marriage Act 1752

[Peter Pedant]

most people have a muvver
are you thinking perhaps of a birth certificate ?

[Cloverjo]

I've only just read the link in the OP, and seen the mention of only fathers' names, not mothers', on the marriage certificate. Is this true? My son got married last year, and neither he nor his wife have anything to do with their fathers. I don't remember their names being mentioned or written anywhere on the certificate.