Kinship Provisions

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Contents 1 8.1 Marital Kinship

For a couple to whom marriage means children, both partners will want to safeguard their futures in the legal commitments of their Marriage Contract. This is where the couple agree and set out how they will parent together the children they create together.

8.1 Marital Kinship

8.1	[Romeo] and [Juliet] recognise that their Agreement, made in the present, is also a promise kept with the past and a promise made to the future; in committing ourselves to each we honour the sacrifices of the generations who came before us; and to the generations who come after us we undertake our best efforts that you will remember our good example of loving commitments made today and honoured on all the days that follow.
8.2	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree to appreciate, for ourselves and our future child/ren, each other's extended family, and particularly the grandparents of our future child/ren, and we will endeavour to uphold and honour their relationships at all times into the future.
8.3	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that we will each accord the other equal status in the lives of our future children.
8.4	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that each of us carries equal responsibility to provide financially for children of our marriage.
8.5	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that each of us carries equal responsibility to nurture the children of our marriage.
8.6	[Romeo] and [Juliet] recognise that, in providing for a marital home, we may arrange the distribution of responsibilities over time and specialise in certain roles for our family's optimum benefit.
8.7	[Romeo] and [Juliet], valuing each other’s complimentary roles as father and mother, agree that any specialisation of roles, whether as provider or nurturer, shall not establish any legal primacy with regard to either provision or parenting.
8.8	[Romeo] and [Juliet] recognise the right of our future children to security of identity and certainty of lineage, and therewith to the love, care, attention, nurturance and companionship of a natural mother and a natural father, and that such a right is independent of and separate from the relationship between us, the children's parents.
8.9	To give effect to the above, [Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that, no more than seven days after the birth of any future child, he or she shall be welcomed into our family tree by the administration of a genetic profile.
8.10	To give further effect to the above, [Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that, no more than seven days after the birth of any future child, we will register both our names on the child's Birth Certificate, so that he or she will benefit from the legal security of having both natural parents so documented.
8.11	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that we each will be joint legal guardians of our future children.
8.12	To give effect to the above, [Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that, no more than seven days after the birth of any future child, agree to complete and register a Statutory Instrument No. 5, so that he or she will benefit from the legal security of having both natural parents as legal guardians.

• Guardianship Declaration form
• Advice on Parental Responsibility

8.13	[Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that we each will be joint legal custodians of our future children.
8.14	To give effect to the above, [Romeo] and [Juliet] agree that, no more than seven days after the birth of any future child, we will submit a motion to the appropriate court, so that he or she will benefit from the legal security of having both natural parents as joint legal custodians with shared legal and physical day-to-day care.

 

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