In Dublin, civil ceremonies accounted for some 42 per cent of all marriages in 2006, the highest figure in the State. By contrast, they accounted for just over 10 per cent of marriages in counties ...

Gay rights campaigners have called on the Government to legislate for civil marriage for same-sex couples following today's Irish Times /Behaviour & Attitudes poll which shows a large majority of ...

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has announced that over 10,000 civil marriage applications were submitted by foreigners to ...

Some councillors argued that the ceremonies would be civil and therefore not a sacrament. Cllr Devitt said that the availability of civil marriage was central to a balanced society.

More than 43,000 marriages registered since the introduction of Law No. 14 of 2021 on Civil Marriage; Over 10,000 in the ...

Civil partnership is different to marriage as it is only available to same-sex couples. However following a landmark ruling at the Supreme Court in June 2018, it could be rolled out to ...

Civil partnership vs civil marriage The civil partnership act of 2004, which came into play in 2005, gave same-sex couples exactly the same rights and responsibilities as those in a civil marriage.

With the advent of civil marriage equality, this discrimination has been both alleviated and reinforced. Same-sex couples can now marry but opposite-sex couples remain banned from civil partnerships.

Now if you open the door to [equal] civil partnership, all of a sudden you’ll have people saying they are weakening marriage,” he said. “They are stuck between a rock and a hard place.” ...

The civil marriage debate took center stage in Lebanon last month when, after a year spent navigating uncharted legal territory in private, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish made public their ...