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United Kingdom

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Dissolution definition

What does Dissolution mean? In family law, dissolution is the court process that ends a civil partnership and restores each partner to single status. It is the route used to end both same‑sex and opposite‑sex civil partnerships in the UK, and remaining same‑sex civil partnerships in Ireland. In England and Wales, dissolution is a statutory process under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, as amended by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020: a sole or joint application supported by a statement of irretrievable breakdown leads (after a minimum 20‑week period) to a conditional order and then a final order. Northern Ireland now operates a...

LPA precedent clauses: applicable law, consultation, dissolution/annulment, and replacement/joint attorneys for property and financial affairs and health and welfare (England and Wales)

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Practice notes

The precedents set out here draw on those in Part I, Chapter 15 of Cretney and Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney. Included are precedents appropriate for use in either property and financial affairs lasting powers of attorney (LPAs) or health and welfare LPAs. For wording tailored to property and financial affairs LPAs, see: LPA precedent instructions and preferences—property and financial affairs LPAs. For wording tailored to health and welfare LPAs, see: LPA precedent instructions and preferences—health and welfare LPAs. For wider guidance on LPA instructions and preferences, see Practice Note: LPAs—instructions and preferences.

Applicable law

‘The law of [territorial jurisdiction] shall govern the existence, scope, alteration or ending of this Lasting Power of Attorney.’

Notes

Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005), Sch 3, para 13(1), where the donor of an LPA is habitually resident in England and Wales when the LPA is granted, the law governing the existence, scope, alteration or ending of the LPA is that of England and Wales, or, if they specify in writing the law of a connected country for that purpose, that law...

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