Getting married or registered partnership
You can choose between marriage and a registered partnership. Both regulate the legal side of living together of both a man and a woman and of two people of the same sex.
The differences between marriage and registered partnership are:
- Ending a marriage or partnership.
A registered partnership can end without going to court. The condition is that you and your partner both agree and that there are no minor children. For the dissolution of a marriage, you must always go to court. Furthermore, a registered partnership does not have a separation from bed and board, but a marriage does.
- Yes word.
When you get married, you say 'I do' to each other. In a registered partnership, this is not mandatory.