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As of 2015, all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia legally recognize and document same-sex relationships in some fashion, be it by same-sex marriage, civil union or domestic partnerships. Many counties and municipalities outside of these states also provide domestic partnership registries or civil unions which are not officially ...
The Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act, which added nearly all the state rights and responsibilities of marriage to domestic partnerships was signed in 2003 and took effect in 2005. Couples in state registered domestic partnerships prior to 2005 who remained registered on January 1, 2005, became entitled to the rights and ...
Domestic relations - Chapter 741. Marriage; Domestic violence. Section 741.04. Marriage license issued. No county court judge or clerk of the circuit court in this state shall issue a license for the marriage of any person … unless one party is a male and the other party is a female. Section 741.212. Marriages between persons of the same sex
For example, a higher-earning individual in a domestic partnership would have to pay higher premiums than their partner, which in a marriage might be easier to avoid if the couple’s combined ...
While most domestic partnership schemes grant those partners limited, enumerated rights, the Oregon, Washington, and Nevada schemes provide substantially the same rights as marriage and are therefore, essentially, civil unions. In 2014, Oregon began offering marriage to same-sex couples too. Example of California domestic partnership certificate.
Some cities allow partnerships in states without laws on the books. Phoenix, Arizona, for example, allows unmarried people to register for a domestic partnership, but only grants visiting rights ...
The Arizona Attorney General, Tom Horne, said the state would not appeal the ruling and instructed county clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples: "Effective immediately, the clerks of Arizona county Superior Courts cannot deny a marriage license to any otherwise eligible licensees on the grounds that the license permits a ...
Marriage, civil union and domestic partnership (expansion: surrogacy) [203] 22 15 — — — No North Carolina: July 2017 Marriage (partial statutory codification) [204] Passed: Passed: Signed Yes Maine: July 2017 Marriage (codification) [205] Passed: Passed — 4 Yes Maryland: January 2018 Domestic partnership (expansion) [206] 135 2 45 1 ...
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