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Married Couple's Allowance could reduce your tax bill each year you're married or in a civil partnership if one of you was born before before 6 April 1935
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In the biggest overhaul to marriage law since the 19th century, reforms are set to give marrying couples greater freedom and boost the economy by £535 million.
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships registered in Northern Ireland during each quarter.
Information note on the recognition or validity of marriage
This report presents evidence from a comparative study of marriage, cohabitation, parenthood and divorce among adolescents and young people
Annual UK and constituent country figures for births, deaths, marriages, divorces, civil partnerships and civil partnership dissolutions.
This is a policy brief from the Young Marriage and Parenthood Study, qualitative research study carried out between 2017 and 2020
Marriages by single year of age and year of marriage, 1974 to 2023
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