If you’re in a civil partnership when you die your will will be dealt with in the same way as a married couple. This means that if you have a will then the wishes laid out in your online will will be followed. If you don’t have a will in place then your estate will be divided up according to the rules of intestacy. When you have a civil partner this means that your surviving partner will inherit all of the personal property that belonged to you and the following depending on whether you have any surviving descendents… If you have surviving descendents e.g. children then your partner will get: The first £270,000 of your estate (everything else you owned) and half of the remaining estate. Your surviving descendants e.g. children will get the other half of the remaining estate. f you don’t have any surviving descendents then your partner will get everything.