Comments about the latest ONS annual civil partnership statistics
Rachel Freeman, a partner at Burgess Mee Family Law, provides insights on the most recent ONS annual civil partnership statistics.
Rachel Freeman, a partner at Burgess Mee Family Law comments: “The increase in numbers, albeit small, of people either married or in a civil partnership is heartening, as these couples benefit from legal safeguards not available to couples who simply live together. The increase also indicates that the myth of common law marriage is slowly being dispelled, as people living together seek some form of legal status.
“Civil partnerships remain more popular with opposite-sex couples than with same-sex couples. Some of those will be couples in long-term relationships who are opposed to marriage for ideological reasons but who still welcome the opportunity to enter into a legally binding commitment. Many will be people who were married before who want something different second time round. The same does not appear to be true of same-sex couples who seem still to be very much in the honeymoon period of marriage.”
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