Registered partners each have the same obligations and rights in their partnership. The partners take decisions jointly on matters relating to their living together as partners. It they fail to reach agreement on important matters, either of them may apply to a court to take a decision instead.
Each party is entitled to represent the other in their everyday affairs. The actions of one of the partners in seeing to the everyday affairs of the partnership are binding on both partners jointly and severally. This applies to commitments made during the partnership, even if the partnership is subsequently annulled or ended. When executing a legal act, one partner may exclude the other partner so that they are not bound by that legal act jointly with the partner that carried out the legal act. In this way, a third party cannot seek satisfaction from both partners if it knows that one of the partners has excluded the other in relation to the legal act in question.
Registered partners do not have community property.
The partners should essentially be on the same level materially and culturally. They both have a maintenance obligation towards each other. If they fail to comply with this obligation, a court may determine its scope if so petitioned by one of the partners. In this respect, a maintenance obligation between partners takes precedence over a child’s obligation to support its parents.
If a child of one of the partners cohabits with them, the other partner has the right and obligation to contribute to the child’s upbringing.