The Northern Ireland Office has recently announced the ability to convert civil partnerships to marriage and vice versa. “Regulations were laid in Parliament today allowing conversion from same-sex civil partnership to marriage, and opposite-sex marriage to civil partnership in Northern Ireland.
For more info visit https://bit.ly/31wXSGN,” the office said via Twitter. It’s estimated over 1,000 same-sex couples will be eligible to change their civil partnership to marriage due to the new change in the law.
Finance Minister Conor Murphy has also released a statement in support of these new changes, stating: “This is a huge step forward for marriage equality and I want to pay tribute to all those who campaigned so hard for this day.” He