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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 18 January 2016 - onwards
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120. Financial compensation orders.

(1) If the court is of the view that one of the reasons set out in subsection (2) exists, the court, on application to it in that behalf by either of the civil partners or by a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, during the lifetime of either of the civil partners, may make, on granting a decree of dissolution or at any time after granting it, one or more of the following orders:

(a) an order, on the application of either of the civil partners, requiring the other civil partner to effect a policy of life insurance for the benefit of the applicant civil partner or a dependent child of the civil partners;

(aa) an order, on the application of a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, requiring either of the civil partners to effect such a policy of life insurance for the benefit of the dependent child;

(b) an order, on the application of one civil partner, requiring the other civil partner to assign to the applicant civil partner, or to such person as may be specified in the order for the benefit of a dependent child of the civil partners, the whole or a specified part of the interest in a policy of life insurance that the other civil partner has effected or that both of the civil partners have effected;