"Living in partnership"
Before the law there is a difference between "only living together" and "living in partnership", for example when someone lived with someone else for years and then would like to receive a widow's pension, for which he claims in court must sue.
What partnership means
- When two people get together and form a community that is both social and sexual, it is a partnership. This community can be same-sex or mixed-sex.
- Since the 1970s, "partnership" has been used in the modern sense of the word to refer to one relationship between two people who should be sexual and permanent. It does not matter whether it is a relationship between two same-sex people or not. It also doesn't matter whether the two live together or not. Also one long-distance relationship thus falls under the term "partnership".
- So it is a marriage, but also a marriage-like community, which is often referred to as a "wild marriage", as well as a solid relationship between two people who love founds.
- A relationship is also considered to be a relationship that is only initially sexually oriented. If a couple then becomes sexually inactive, they can still be recognized as "in partnership". If a relationship is purely sexual in nature, it is not referred to as a partnership because the social aspect is missing.
- The relationship between siblings or friends does not fall under this term either, as in this case the sexual aspect is left out.
- A civil partnership is popularly referred to as a gay marriage. People of different sexes enter into a marriage, people of the same sex into a civil partnership.
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What "living in partnership" means in particular
- "Living in partnership" is a prerequisite for the fact that two people have the registered partnership and enjoy the benefits of a marriage-like partnership Marriage come. This has been possible in Germany since 2001.
- In Germany there is only the possibility of entering into a civil partnership if a couple wants to lead their relationship in a legally orderly manner.
- Depending on the country, "living in partnership" means something different. As a clue: the time factor plays a role because it can mean, for example, having lived together for three years. It also plays a role whether both have the same place of residence.
The individual cases are so different that other factors play a role before the "predicate" "living in partnership" is valid in the legal sense.
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