Heterosexual couples form 1st civil partnerships in England<\/h1>\nThe groundbreaking case had been brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who were among the first to form a civil partnership under the new rules.<\/h2>\n
sex-and-relationships<\/span> Updated: Jan 01, 2020 13:22 IST<\/span><\/p>\n England and Wales have marked a new era in which heterosexual<\/a> couples can choose to have a civil partnership <\/a>instead of a marriage. The change, mandated by Britain\u2019s Supreme Court last year, took effect Tuesday.<\/p>\n The groundbreaking case had been brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who were among the first to form a civil partnership under the new rules.<\/p>\n They were joined by their two children for the partnership formed at the Kensington and Chelsea Register Office in central London.<\/p>\n Steinfeld, 38, called it \u201ca unique, special and personal moment for us\u201d that had been \u201crooted in our desire to formalise our relationship in a more modern way, focus on equality and mutual respect.\u201d The new rules means that mixed-sex couples can opt for a civil partnership that will give them similar rights as married couples, including marriage allowance tax relief, inheritance tax exemption, and joint parental responsibility for children.<\/p>\n It is expected to be an attractive option for couples who believe marriage gives men the upper hand and also by couples who don\u2019t want any religious element in their union.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court ruling means that civil partnerships, which have been available to same-sex couples since 2005, will be available to everyone.<\/p>\n Advocates of the change argued successfully in court that to deny heterosexual couples the same options available to same-sex couples amounted to discrimination.<\/p>\n Steinfeld and Keidan lost their bid in a lower court, but triumphed at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n \u201cAgainst all odds, we succeeded in a legal battle against the government and then, they did what we asked for all along,\u201d said Keidan, 43.<\/p>\n He said the long legal battle had taken its toll on the couple\u2019s mental health and strained their relationship.<\/p>\n Same-sex couples have been allowed to marry in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014. Same-sex marriages will be allowed for the first time in Northern Ireland early next year.<\/p>\n (This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u0907\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0932\u0948\u0902\u0921 \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u0930\u0947\u092c\u0947\u0915\u093e \u0935\u094d \u091a\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0932\u094d\u0938 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 \u0926\u092e\u094d\u092a\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0940 \u092c\u0928\u0947 \u091c\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0939\u094b\u0902\u0928\u0947 \u0928\u090f \u0915\u093e\u0928\u0942\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u0924\u0939\u0924 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925… more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-2","category-sanskriti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13147,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/images\/app-images\/ht\/default_author.png\" "\\"\\"")
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