Registration and certification of registry entries in the Registry of Unmarried Couples.
Registration and certification of registry entries in the Registry of Unmarried Couples.
The purpose of the Register of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria is to register, at the request of the interested parties, all those persons who are unmarried couples, both of the same and different sex, to whom the provisions of the Law of Cantabria 1/2005, of 16 May, will be applicable from then on. of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. The Register is voluntary and free of charge and depends organically on the Directorate General for Social Inclusion, Families and Equality. In addition to the basic registration, complementary registration, marginal note registration and cancellation of registration may be promoted before the registry. Agreements can also be registered to govern their relations during cohabitation and to liquidate them after their cessation, as well as their modifications. Certificates of entries and absence of entries are issued at the request of the interested parties.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Inclusion Social, Juventud, Familias E Igualdad
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Inclusion Social, Familias E Igualdad (DIR3: A06018754)
- Classification
- Registries and Censuses
- Subject(s)
- Relations of the citizen, company or public employee with the Administration
- Starting way
- Interested
- Target
- Citizens
- Subject to fees
- No
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
Requirements
In accordance with Article 4 of the Law of Cantabria 1/2005, of 16 May, on Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria:
"1. Those unmarried couples in which both parties are registered and have their effective residence in any municipality of Cantabria at least six months in advance may be registered in the Register of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
However, if the couple comes from another Autonomous Community in which they are registered in a register of unmarried couples or similar nature of the Administration of that Autonomous Community, the registration and residence of a minimum of six months in any municipality of Cantabria will not be required, provided that, at the time of the application, both parties of the couple are registered and with effective residence in any municipality of Cantabria.
Unless proven otherwise, the interested persons shall be considered, for the purposes of this article, to have their effective residence in the municipality in which they are registered, regardless of their nationality.
2. For the purposes of the application of this law, a common-law partnership is considered to be one that results from the union of two people in a stable, free, public and notorious manner, in an affective relationship analogous to the conjugal relationship, regardless of their sexual orientation.
3. A union is considered to be stable when its members meet any of the following requirements:
a) That they have lived together in the same household for at least one year uninterruptedly.
b) That they have common, natural or adopted descendants.
The minimum cohabitation of one year referred to in paragraph a) shall be accredited in the manner determined by regulation. However, in no case may this period of cohabitation be accredited exclusively by means of a statement by the parties of the couple or witnesses.
In the event that one or both of the partners are linked by marriage to another person at the time of the beginning of the relationship, the time of cohabitation elapsed until the last of the parties obtains the dissolution or, where appropriate, the nullity, will be taken into account in the calculation of the minimum period of one year indicated.
4. Couples already registered in another register of de facto unions of another Autonomous Community, or the unions of which they are part, may not be registered in the Register of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria:
a) Unemancipated minors.
b) Persons linked by a marriage bond.
c) Persons who form a civil partnership duly registered with another person in any of the registers referred to in the third additional provision of this Law.
d) Relatives in the direct line by consanguinity or adoption.
e) Relatives in the collateral line by consanguinity or adoption up to the second degree.
f) Persons who have been declared incapable of validly giving consent by a final court judgment.
However, if the couple comes from another autonomous community in which they are registered in a register of unmarried couples or similar nature of the Administration of that autonomous community, the registration and residence of a minimum of six months in any municipality of Cantabria will not be required, provided that, at the time of the application, both parties of the couple are registered and with effective residence in any municipality of Cantabria.
5. The constitution of a civil partnership may not be agreed on a temporary basis or subject to conditions."
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
All year round.
- Submission deadline start date
- 27/02/2007
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
- Place(s) for in-person submission
- At any registry office of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
- In the registry offices of any administrative body belonging to the General State Administration, the Administrations of the Autonomous Communities, or the entities that make up the Local Administration if, in the latter case, the appropriate agreement has been signed.
- At the Post Offices in the regulatory form.
- In the Common Electronic Register of the Government of Cantabria.
To find the registration office closest to your home, you can visit the Institutional Portal of the Government of Cantabria, in its Citizen Service section 012, Registros.
Required documentation
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Annex IV Cancellation Entry-2025. The request for a cancellation entry, accompanied by the supporting documentation in original or certified photocopy, must comply with the following formalities depending on the cause in question: a) If the dissolution of the couple occurs by mutual agreement, the cancellation request must be signed by both parties of the couple. b) If the dissolution of the couple occurs by the unilateral will of one of the parties to the couple, the request for cancellation must be signed by the party of the couple that makes it, and the governing body to which the Registry is attached must notify the other party of the couple of this circumstance, prior to the resolution that, where appropriate, is issued agreeing to the practice of the cancellation entry. c) If the dissolution of the couple occurs due to the death or declaration of death of one of the parties to the couple, the request for cancellation must be provided with a certificate issued by the Civil Registry. d) If the dissolution of the couple occurs due to the marriage of the couple or one of its members, the request for cancellation must be accompanied by a certificate from the Civil Registry. e) If the dissolution of the couple occurs because both parties of the couple are no longer registered in any municipality of Cantabria, the cancellation request must be provided with a certificate of registration in the new municipality and a certificate of deregistration from the municipal register of Cantabria. f) If the dissolution of the couple occurs due to non-compliance with other requirements for the registration of the couple or due to the effective cessation of cohabitation for a period of more than one year, the request for cancellation must be accompanied by the document that proves this circumstance. g) In the event of a request for cancellation of complementary entries, the document must be provided that proves the supervening ineffectiveness or nullity of the registered agreements.
Mandatory
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Annex II Complementary Registration-2025. The application for complementary registration, which may be made simultaneously or after the basic registration, must be signed by both parties of the couple. For the registration of the agreements as well as for their modification, they must be formalized in a public deed.
Mandatory
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Annex III Marginal Note-2025. The application for a marginal grade must be submitted accompanied by documentation proving the variation in the data in question.
Mandatory
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Annex V-Application for Certificate. Request for Certificate.
Mandatory
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Annex I Basic Registration. The application for basic registration, signed by both parties of the couple, must be accompanied by the following documents, in original or certified photocopy: a) Valid documentation accrediting the identity of each of the parties to the couple, who must present the following documents, according to the nationality of the applicants: 1º Spaniards: national identity document (DNI). 2. Foreign citizens who are nationals of the European Union or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area: national identity card or passport issued by the authorities of the country of origin. 3º Other foreign citizens: complete passport issued by the authorities of the country of origin or Foreigner's Identity Card or equivalent card issued by the Spanish authorities. It will not be necessary to present the original or certified photocopy of the identity document if the interested person provides a DNI number or Foreigner Identity Number (NIE) and expressly authorises its direct verification in the Identity Data Verification System (SVDI). b) Municipal certificate of registration of both parties of the couple, issued by the City Council of the municipality of Cantabria that corresponds a maximum of two months in advance, stating the last date of registration in the register. A registration certificate will not be accepted. It will not be necessary to present the registration certificate if the interested person provides a DNI or NIE number and expressly authorises its direct verification in the Residence Data Verification System (SVDR). c) Certificate from the Civil Registry, issued no more than two months in advance, on the marital status of each member of the couple. In the case of foreigners, an equivalent certificate, issued a maximum of six months in advance by the corresponding body in the applicant's country of origin, legalised for this purpose in Spain (unless an agreement exempts from legalisation) and, where appropriate, accompanied by an official translation. d) Responsible declaration by both parties of the couple stating the following points: stable, free, public and notorious cohabitation in an affective relationship analogous to the conjugal one; not having a de facto or de jure partnership with another person; not be related in a direct line by consanguinity or adoption or in a collateral line by consanguinity or adoption up to the second degree and not have been judicially incapacitated to give valid consent. (e) In the case of minors, a certificate issued by the Civil Registry stating their emancipation. f) The stability of the couple due to having lived together at the same address for at least one year uninterruptedly, will be accredited, taking as a reference the date of submission of the application, by one of the following means: 1º One or more municipal certificates of registration of the couple's parties, stating the dates of registration, and where appropriate, deregistration in the common domicile. 2º Public document, authorized at least one year in advance, in which the parties of the couple have expressed their desire to constitute a common-law partnership. 3º Certificate of entries issued by the registry of unmarried couples or similar nature of another autonomous community in which the couple has been registered, stating the basic registration and cancellation, with their respective dates. 4. Certificate of registration of the couple in a similar Registry of a local entity in Cantabria. 5º Any other means of evidence admissible in law, not provided for in the previous sections, that allows determining compliance with the aforementioned period of cohabitation. However, this period of cohabitation may not be accredited exclusively by means of a declaration by the parties of the couple
Mandatory
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Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Governing body responsible for the promotion of women's equality.
- Attributive rule
Article nine of Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, which partially modifies the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- Directorate-General for Social Inclusion, Families and Equality.
- Attributive rule
Decree 55/2006 of 18 May, which regulates the structure and operation of the Register of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, amended by Decree 84/2008, of 28 August and by Decree 44/2016, of 4 August.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 6 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 2 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation by request:
- Positive
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Departments of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality.
- Deadline
- 1 month if the resolution is express. At any time if it is presumed.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Decree 55/2006 of 18 May, which regulates the structure and operation of the Register of Unmarried Couples of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, amended by 84/2008, of 28 August and by Decree 44/2016, of 4 August.
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- Law of Cantabria 1/2005, of 16 May, on Couples of Fact of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, amended by Article 14 of Cantabria Law 6/2015, of 28 December, on Fiscal and Administrative Measures.
Do you need help?
The 012 General Telephone Information Service will be available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, according to the following timetable:
- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
Mechanised attention, via voicemail, during other hours and on public holidays. - Incoming calls to the mailbox will be recorded and then, from the General Information Telephone 012, a response call will be made to the citizen to resolve his or her request for information.
- For telephone calls from outside the Autonomous Community of Cantabria you can dial 942 395 563 (from abroad +34 942 395 563); if you are calling from Cantabria, you can dial 942 395 562.
- This service is only available in Spanish.