SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Financial relief in England and Wales after overseas dissolution etc. of a civil partnership

Part 1Financial relief

Part applies where civil partnership has been dissolved etc. overseas

1

1

This Part of this Schedule applies where—

a

a civil partnership has been dissolved or annulled, or the civil partners have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in an overseas country, and

b

the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is entitled to be recognised as valid in England and Wales.

2

This Part of this Schedule applies even if the date of the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is earlier than the date on which the Part comes into force.

3

In this Schedule “overseas country” means a country or territory outside the British Islands.

4

In this Part of this Schedule “child of the family” means—

a

a child of both of the civil partners, and

b

any other child, other than a child placed with them as foster parents or by a local authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both the civil partners as a child of their family.