How to get married in Ireland – The legal requirements
You have booked the hotel, agonised over the colour scheme and have the photobooth ready and waiting….but what about the legal side of things? This article will explore the legal requirements in Ireland which a couple must comply with before their big.
“To Have and to Hold…” New Rights of Civil Partners and Cohabiting Couples
Dramatic and radical changes in Irish Family Law were introduced by the (clumsily named) Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 which took effect from the 1st of January 2011. There has been much publicity in the media of the fact that for the first time in Ireland, same sex couples, […]
Finance Bill 2011
The enactment of the Finance Bill next week will no doubt be an extremely messy affair in a month where Irish politics hit new lows. With possibly the biggest political upheaval since the foundation of the state on the cards the last act of the current government is to push through the Finance Bill, enacting […]
Living with your Partner and the Law
This summer saw the introduction of a new Act called the ‘Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act, 2010. In this article I shall deal only with Cohabitants. I shall deal with Civil Partnerships in another article. Up to now couples who cohabit (even for many years) acquired no rights against each […]
Living with your partner and the law (Part 2)
Last week I discussed the introduction of a new Act called the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants 2010. As a continuation, the Act also introduces significant changes in relation to the estate of a deceased cohabitant. Effectively the Act largely brings a cohabitant materially within the same remit as that of […]