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UK couple gain right to a more equitable civil partnership
28-6-2018
The Supreme Court of Britain unanimously ruled in favor of Rebecca Steinfeld, 37, and Charles Keidan, 41, from London, in their request to civil partnership instead of marriage, noting that previously, only same sex couples were allowed civil partnership. A civil partnership contract can be registered with the local authorities and grants all the rights currently enjoyed by spouses, such as inheritance, social security, retirement and abandonment. To recall, Britain’s Court of Appeal has earlier rejected the couple’s request in February 2017. The couple who have been together since 2010 and have two daughters, considered that the law that prohibits heterosexual people from civil partnership is contrary to the country’s equality law. They said traditional marriage has treated women as property, adding they did not want to enter into that arrangement. They said they wanted to raise their children as equal partners and civil partnership is the best example for that. Hence, the Supreme Court declared that restricting civil partnerships between same sex couples is sexist, while noting that this does not oblige the government to change the current law in effect. To remind, since 2014, same sex persons have the right to choose between marriage or civil partnership if they wanted to, but this is prohibited for heterosexual persons. On the subject, Martine Loat, chairman of the Equal Civil Partnerships Campaign said work is underway to give everyone the right to a civil partnership, pointing that more than 130,000 people have signed a petition in support of this. (BBC, June 27, 2018)
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