Originally Posted by Yorkshire Traveller

Well, we had our 'Civil Partnership' just over a week ago (October 20th!)

We have been together for ten years and for us it was important that we protect pensions, inheritance (no inhertiance tax in the UK between spouses) and the like. We faced the situation that if one of us died, the surviving partner would have had to have sold our house to pay the 40% inheritance tax on the estate. This is now no longer the case.

Plus of course we had a really great bash with 150 friends to help us celebrate

Nigel.