Jul 07 2009

uncivil

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When submitting your Tax return in the UK it’s quite important for Her Majesties Revenue and Customs to know whether you are a same-sex couple or a hetero-sexual couple.  Implying there is a difference in how these groups are treated legally.  Marriages can include separation and can be followed by divorce,  while civil partnerships are either civil or dissolved.  If one person in a civil partnership dies is the remaining person a widow or widower?  Why is the gender of the surviving partner important?  Why doesn’t the list simply offer the gender-free option of  ’Widowed’?

I became very confused quite early on,  and things quickly degraded from here

 

Civil

  1. Oranjepan writes

    There’s a reason why the computer likes to say no… it’s in the programming.

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