Commentary on Sections Part 4 – Civil Partnership: Northern Ireland.Introduction Chapter 3 – Property and Financial Arrangements Section 193: Applications under section 191 by former civil partners
364.This section allows a former civil partner to make an application to the court in respect of a dispute over property under Section 191 (as extended by Section 192) despite the fact that the civil partnership has been dissolved, annulled or is void (whether or not an order for annulment has been granted). The application must be made within three years of the date of dissolution or annulment of the civil partnership. Where the civil partnership is void but has not been annulled and the parties have ceased to live together, the application must be made within three years of the date on which the parties ceased to live together.