Responses to Civil Partnership:A framework for the legal recognition ...

Are there any other rights and responsibilities not discussed abovethat you think should be given to registered partners?4.10 Most of those who answered this question thought that the rights andresponsibilities of a civil partnership should be as close to marriage aspossible:Rights and responsibilities raised:• the other partner in a civil partnership should be able to legally acquireparental responsibility;The Government proposes that civil partners should be able to acquireparental responsibility in respect of their partner’s children in the sameway as married people. It is not intended that this should alter theresponsibility of the natural parents to support their children.• coroner legislation should be addressed;The Government will consider what amendments to coroner legislationwould be necessary to achieve parity for civil partners in respect ofinquest proceedings.• student funding criteria needs to be addressed as it refers to opposite-sexcouples in its definitions;The Government proposes that criteria for the funding of students inhigher education would be addressed so that same-sex couples aretreated in the same way as opposite-sex couples.29