Some people don't want to live in an informal relationship forever, but don't want to get married either. That's why the option of a registered civil partnership is a perfect solution.


Even so, a civil partnership can be registered, but you have to meet certain requirements for that.
Nevertheless, it also brings many good things with it.
But what exactly is involved and why it can be worthwhile, you'll find out in the following text.

This is why a registered civil partnership makes sense

For one thing, there are several legal advantages that a registered civil partnership brings with it.
You only have a claim to inheritance rights if you live in one.
There is also a claim to family maintenance and, in the event of separation, to separation maintenance.
In addition, the following legal foundations belong to a civil partnership:"

- Authority to act for the household (Schlüsselgewalt)
- Tenancy law
- Employment law
- Tax law"

All of this can, if desired, be handled similarly to a marriage. You can therefore draw quite a few benefits from it.
You just have to approach it the right way and not rush anything.

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Requirements and legal provisions for registration

Under Section 1 of the German Civil Partnership Act (LPartG), certain characteristics are named that must be met in each individual case.
First, it speaks of two partners of the same sex and of the mutual declaration of a civil partnership.
In addition, this declaration should be made for an unlimited period and for life, and announced before the relevant authority.
There are also some obstacles standing in the way of a registered civil partnership.
Each partner must already be of legal age and must not be in a marriage elsewhere.
Therefore no civil partner may be registered with another person, otherwise he commits a criminal offense.
A direct line of kinship likewise rules this out, which is also how it is regulated for ordinary marriage.
Various documents are then required for the registered civil partnership.
What's needed always depends on what your previous status was. That is, whether you were single or already married.

Rights and obligations within the registered civil partnership

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The registered civil partnership above all presupposes care and support within the partnership, since you bear responsibility for each other.
Work and a certain amount of assets are measured in this as well.
Just as with a marriage, the marital property regime of community of accrued gains applies here, so everything that already belonged to the partner before registration remains in his ownership.
Only what is added over the course of the registered civil partnership then counts as something shared.
Since 2015 there has been the so-called pension equalization, which fairly divides the claims to old-age pensions.
With the help of a notarial contract, everything can be put in writing, so that it is definitely adhered to.
This makes it a marriage-like partnership that two people enter into, which is nevertheless not anchored too firmly.
By now, almost all the same benefits result from it as from an ordinary marriage.