Family and Relationships
- Before your baby is born
- After your baby is born
- Miscarriage and stillbirth
- Adoption, fostering and surrogacy
- Children's rights and policy
- Services and supports for children
- Getting married
- Married couples
- Civil partnerships
- Cohabiting couples
- Parenting alone
- Problems in marriages and other relationships
- Separation, divorce and dissolution


This page explains grandparents’ rights in relation to their grandchildren, including how to apply for access or custody, as well as becoming a guardian.
This document describes how to get a birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership or death certificate in Ireland.
The role of the EU in family law is mainly ensuring that decisions made in one EU country can be implemented in another. It also has a role in trying to establish which country has jurisdiction to hear a particular case.