Civil Partnership

Nullity and Civil Partnerships

A civil partnership may be found to be void in the following circumstances:

  • the parties are ineligible to register as civil partners;
  • the correct formalities had not been followed;

A civil partnership may be found to be voidable in the following circumstances:

  • lack of consent;
  • either party suffers from a mental health disorder so as to be unfit for civil partnership;
  • at the time of the civil partnership the respondent was pregnant by another person