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Hawaii's reciprocal beneficiary status is recognized by other jurisdictions as being notably weaker than other same-sex union laws. The state of New Jersey , for example, recognizes reciprocal beneficiary status as equivalent only to domestic partnerships , not civil unions in New Jersey.
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
A marriage certificate is given to a couple who have married. Until the introduction of electronic registration of marriages in May 2021, copies were made in two registers: one was retained by the church or register office; the other, when the entire register is full, was sent to the superintendent registrar of the registration district.
Hawaii's denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples was challenged in court in 1993. In 1994, the state enacted a statute banning same-sex marriage. [ 19 ] In November 1998, the voters of Hawaii voted 70 percent in favor of Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 , which amended the State Constitution to allow the State Legislature to ban same ...
Dec. 1—In 1998, 69 % of Hawaii residents supported a constitutional amendment that marriage should be reserved only for opposite-sex genders. Today same-sex marriages have about 70 % support ...
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Austrian marriage license (duplicate) from 1854. Vital records are records of life events kept under governmental authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses (or marriage certificates), separation agreements, divorce certificates or divorce party and death certificates.
A Marriage Certificate issued in the US in 1877. The marriage between Luisa de Abrego, a free black domestic servant from Seville and Miguel Rodríguez, a white Segovian conquistador in 1565 in St. Augustine (Spanish Florida), is the first known and recorded Christian marriage anywhere in what is now the continental United States.