Each link leads to the page of the site devoted to that topic for this country. The general topic sits at the top of each of those pages.
The country in brief
Trinidad and Tobago, 1.4 million people, is a common-law country with civil, Hindu, Muslim and Orisa marriage acts, all requiring 18 years since the 2017 reform that ended child marriage; the Cohabitational Relationships Act 1998 gives unmarried partners of five years property and maintenance rights, and the Domestic Violence Act, amended in 2020, provides protection orders.
Abortion remains a crime except to preserve the woman's life or health under the common-law defence; the 2018 High Court ruling striking down the buggery laws was reversed on appeal in 2025, and the Data Protection Act is only partly in force. The pages below give the rule for each theme of the site and the services in Port of Spain and Tobago, including for the diaspora.
Advice
- Adoption
- Childcare
- Copyright
- Data protection
- Divorce
- Domestic violence
- Fundamental rights
- Healthy, good-looking teeth
- Identity theft
- Image rights
- Inheritance
- International dating
- Marriage
- Matrimonial property and inheritance
- Naming law, country by country
- Online shopping
- Partnerships and cohabitation
- Privacy
- Romance scams
- Same-sex marriage
- Sexual offences committed abroad
- Speech and online harassment
- Step-families
- The religious ceremony
- Wedding customs and ceremonies
- When your teenager's first relationship begins
Health
Sexuality
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