Legal Perspective - A Winckworth Sherwood Podcast
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Legal Perspective - A Winckworth Sherwood Podcast
Civil Partnerships for all – an alternative to marriage?
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Selena Arbe-Barnes
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Season 1
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Episode 2
Selena Arbe-Barnes discusses the latest developments in the law on civil partnerships which, as of the turn of the decade, have been made available to both same and opposite sex couples in England and Wales. She covers why the law has been changed, how civil partnerships differ to marriage, what the consequences of entering into a civil partnership are (and what that means financially when they do not work out), as well as busting the myth of the “common law marriage”.