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The following table identifies which articles in the UCC each U.S. jurisdiction has currently adopted. However, it does not make any distinctions for the various official revisions to the UCC, the selection of official alternative language offered in the UCC, or unofficial changes made to the UCC by some jurisdictions.
In December 2011, Delegate John Doyle introduced a bill to legalize civil unions in West Virginia as one of his last acts before retirement in 2012. [5] [6] It was submitted to the House of Delegates in February 2012 and died without a vote. [7] West Virginia extended hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples through a designated visitor ...
The adoption code makes no exception for couples living together who are not married." [24] The law was updated in 2023 to use the phrasing "an unmarried couple may not adopt a minor" but kept the requirement of marriage. [25] Additionally, some courts have turned down requests to adopt a same-sex spouse’s child. [26]
1952: Adoption [State Code] Adoption petitions must state race of petitioner and child. Tennessee ... Overturned by Strauder v West Virginia in 1880. Wyoming
So far the UPAA/UPMAA has been adopted by 28 states and the District of Columbia: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah ...
(The Center Square) – Initiative 2066, ensuring natural gas remains an energy choice in Washington state, will take effect on Thursday. Voters approved I-2066 on Nov. 5. Despite the fast ...
The Uniform Partnership Act (UPA), which includes revisions that are sometimes called the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (RUPA), is a uniform act (similar to a model statute), proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") for the governance of business partnerships by U.S. States.
The final text of the Uniform Trust Code (UTC) was approved by the ULC commissioners in August 2000. The American Bar Association's House of Delegates officially endorsed the UTC in February 2001. The following months saw the finalization of detailed interpretive comments in April 2001 and minor clean-up revisions in August 2001. [ 2 ]