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Originally Posted by dellwear
Automatic rights to my partners estate if he dies before me,
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A will resolves this and should be written even if you are married (or straight and cohabiting). Insurance companies are more forward thinking than the government and will hapily pay a life insurance policy over to a gay partner if that is what the policy holder nominated. As a married couple your automatic rights to your partners estate are severely impared if you have children, to the point they could take sufficient ownership of your home that they could force you out (though unless you adopt I realise this is a bit of a technicality)
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Originally Posted by dellwear
the fact that I have no legal protection if we buy a house together like a married couple would.
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Yes you do, a good (or even a very average) property conveyencor would suggest you own the property as tennants in common (not joint tennants), tennents in common both own a shadow 100% of the property in event of death of a tennant, then ownership automatically is shared between the rest of the tennants.
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Originally Posted by dellwear
I'm unable to prove my income as I'm currently not working because I'm studying with the OU and my partner provides an income for me a the moment,
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I don't quite understand the point you are trying to make here. Most firms and their pension policies allow you to specify a same sex life partner ( in my companies case you must have been living together for two years). In such an example in the event of death, the company pension scheme would provide death in service benefits to the same sex life partner.
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Originally Posted by dellwear
and on top of that I'm unable to make any medical decisions for him if he is unable. All of which would be available to me if we were "married".
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Nothing a living will won't resolve. In reality if you have a healthy relationship with him and his parents, you would want to be including them in the decision and they would want you to be included in the decision regardless of what the law said. Similarly the NHS will pretty much overlook the law for visitor rights etc. I know if I had to make a decision to turn of Mrs H life support I would be making this decision in conjunction with her Mother and rest of family regardless of whether I had the ultimate right to overrule.
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Originally Posted by dr wadd
If that approach is taken, does it not imply that the same arrangment should also be made for aetheists?
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Isn't that what we call a civil service?