If your civil partnership has broken down permanently and you believe there is no future for your relationship, working through all the important decisions you need to make can be incredibly daunting. 

The experienced family law specialists at Clough & Willis can help you throughout the process of dissolving your civil partnership to ensure you get the best outcome possible. 

What is a civil partnership?

Civil partnership is the legal status that enables couples to obtain legal recognition of their relationship by registration.

This provides couples with many of the legal rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples. 

How to dissolve a civil partnership

A civil partnership may be dissolved by making an application for a Dissolution Order. A couple can make an application for a Dissolution Order after one year from the date of registration. 

An application for a Dissolution Order may be made by either party on the grounds that the civil partnership has broken down irretrievably. Similarly to divorce, there is no longer the need to prove one of the four facts.

How we can help

When going through a Dissolution, it is important to deal with how the couple's assets should be divided. Our experienced and knowledgeable solicitors can advise on a range of issues, including: 

• Agreeing how to divide assets
• Dissolution or separation orders
• Parental responsibility orders
• Joint residence orders
• Issues surrounding children, such as contact, child maintenance payments and school fees, etc.