domestic partnership california

• Commentary: California High Court: Marriage V. Domestic Partnership

Last week the California Supreme Court issued a decision on whether California's designation of opposite-sex legal relationships as "marriages" and same-sex legal relationships as "domestic partnerships" is acceptable, In re Marriage Cases, S147000 (May 15). The court found that such differential designations are unconstitutional. The case involved six consolidated appeals, and the court, in a 4 to 3 decision, went into great detail to explain its position. Issue

• Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
• June 13, 2008

• Verizon and California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Launch Program to Help Victims Protect Themselves by Using Technology

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• U.S. Newswire
• August 07, 2009

• Potential Pitfalls

An overview of a few selected issues that CPAs who provide financial planning for domestic partners may face is presented. Among the first domestic partnership issues to reach the California courts is the narrow question of whether or not a surviving registered domestic partner whose partner died prior to January 1, 2006, will be treated the same as a surviving spouse by local property tax assessors. While the regulatory authority seems to support such treatment, this interpretation is under challenge. For guidance, S.B. 565 is a good place to start. It has been in effect since January 1, 2006, and provides registered domestic partners protection against reassessment that parallels the protection provided to spouses. Under California law, retirement plans often constitute community prop...

• California CPA
• Vol. 74 Nbr. 9, May 2006

• A Trend Toward State Recognition Of Same-Sex Civil Unions

... have laws that create various types of domestic partnership.2. Application of the Civil Union La... states have domestic partnership laws: California, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Or...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Connecticut Supremes Guarantee Equal Protection in Marriage for Gay Partners

They are the only two states in which marriage litigation took place in the context of a state system that paralleled marriage," said [Bennett Klein]. In California, it was domestic partnership; in Connecticut, it is civil unions. When he argued the Connecticut marriage case - [Elizabeth Kerrigan] v.

• Between the Lines; Livonia
• August 28, 2009

• California Recognizes Seven-and-a-Half Years of Gay Marriages From Elsewhere

The law also extends all state marriage rights - except the right to call their marriage a "marriage" - to same-sex couples who got married anywhere in the world after Nov. 5, 2008, or who do so in the future. California's domestic partnership law grants same-sex couples every state-level right and obligation of marriage except the right to call their union "marriage.

• Between the Lines; Livonia
• November 09, 2009

• Family Violence Prevention and Services/Grants to State Domestic Violence Coalitions

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... to the Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Initiative'' are available at http://www.hhs.gov/p... AR. Domestic Violence. California Partnership to End Sacramento..... CA. Dome...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 14393, March 09, 2012
• Notices
• Health and Human Services Department

• Our View Money Might Decide Gay-Marriage Issue

As gay activists and civil-rights advocates alike learned last month in Santa Fe, and last fall in California, there's still strong resistance to recognizing same-sex marriages or anything legally resembling them. The New Mexico Legislature once again rejected a domestic- partnership measure. And in California, whose Supreme Court last May overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage, opponents of the notion were quick to anticipate that decision: They gathered petitions to put a proposition on the November ballot limiting citizens' rights to marriage. It passed. So there, said the shrinking anti-gay bloc.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• April 13, 2009

• Toward perfect unions: California's new domestic-partnership law is second only to Vermont's.

The passage of a sweeping domestic-partnership bill in California has activists across the country hailing its potential to build on the momentum star...

• The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine
• Nbr. 2003, June 2003

• III. Methods for acquiring benefits

... or herself advocating for domestic partnership benefits in more than one arena. For example, whil.... 1. Local . California is at the forefront of changing local ordinances. ...

• Recognizing Lesbian and Gay Families: Strategies for obtaining domestic partner benefits
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