‘The modern family – the interpretation of children, spouses and civil partners in older trust deeds’

“It has become cliché to say that modern familial arrangements are vastly different now to how they were 50 years ago, but that does not make it any less true. In 2019, almost half of all births were outside of a marriage or civil-partnership, and 3,440 children were adopted from local authority care. With the passage of the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013, and the Civil Partnership (Opposite Sex Couples) Regulations 2019, the range of relationships that can be legally recognised, and the form that this recognition takes are also very different …” (more)

[Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, Wilberforce Chambers, 17 February]

First posted 2021-02-18 18:16:59

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