Privacy statement for Cohabitation Affairs

The Digital and Population Data Services Agency maintains the Register of Cohabitation Affairs, in which the property separation deeds and the contracts or other documents concerning compensation laid down in the Act on the Dissolution of the Household of Cohabiting Partners are recorded. The purpose of the register is to enforce the legal effects of the documents and make the information public.

The provisions laid down in section 16 of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities are applied to dis-closures of the information contained in the register. However, everyone has the right to receive a copy or a printout of the registered information concerning a certain person.