Family and Relationships
- Before your baby is born
- After your baby is born
- Miscarriage and stillbirth
- Adoption, fostering and surrogacy
- Children's rights and policy
- Services and supports for children
- Getting married
- Married couples
- Civil partnerships
- Cohabiting couples
- Parenting alone
- Problems in marriages and other relationships
- Separation, divorce and dissolution
- Older people
The breakdown of a marriage or other relationship is a difficult and traumatic process. This page outlines the issues that may arise.
The Gender Recognition Act 2015 provides for the legal recognition of a person's preferred gender by the State.
The role of the EU in family law is mainly ensuring that decisions made in one EU country can be implemented in another. It also has a role in trying to establish which country has jurisdiction to hear a particular case.
This document describes how to get a birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership or death certificate in Ireland.