Method 2. Understand you and your partner's new rights. As domestic partners, you and your partner are now entitled to a number of rights and benefits. These are similar to those afforded to a married couple. In New York City, domestic partners are allowed to visit each other in New York City operated hospitals, correctional, and detention facilities. A domestic partner can be added to a housing rental agreement as a family member.
Domestic partners are eligible for health care benefits provided by many cities in New York, including New York City, Albany, Rochester and more. Domestic partners of New York City firefighters, police officers, uniformed correctional officers and other city workers killed while on duty have the right to a monetary award from the city.
Research other benefits that may be available to you and your partner. Your new certificate is proof of your registered civil union and can be used to apply for domestic partnership benefits. Sick and bereavement leave. Accident and life insurance. Death benefits. Parental leave. Prepare the documents you will need for benefits. In most cases, you will simply need the certificate that was issued by the clerk's office. Legally, you should not be required to complete any other documentation proving that you are in a domestic partnership.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. If you or your partner ever marry each other or someone else , your domestic partnership ends automatically. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. A domestic partnership ceremony can also be performed at the City Clerk's office for an additional fee.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 1. Legally married couples are entitled to more rights and benefits under New York State law than domestic partners. This includes child custody visitation is not awarded to the partner who is not a biological parent and property rights division of property laws that are applicable to married couples do not apply in civil unions.
Helpful 6 Not Helpful 5. Cancel Print. Advanced Search. For Domestic Partners. But remember: it is in your best interest to see a lawyer about ending your domestic partnership. If you are married and want to dissolve your marriage, click for help filing a summary dissolution for a marriage. If you are both, married to your same-sex spouse AND in a registered domestic partnership, and you want to end both at the same time, click to read the instructions for dissolving both a same-sex marriage and domestic partnership.
Do You Qualify for a Summary Dissolution? Agree that neither partner wants partner support from the other; AND Have signed an agreement that either divides your property including your cars and debts or says there is no community property or debts to divide. Click to for a fillable property agreement. Click to see a sample agreement with instructions I qualify; go to the next step.
I do not qualify; help me get a regular divorce. This brochure will help you throughout your case. Fill out your Notice of Termination.
Fill out: Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership. You must BOTH sign this form. If you have questions about terminating a domestic partnership, you should consult with a private attorney.
If all conditions of California Family Code section cannot be met, domestic partnerships must be terminated through proceedings in California Superior Court. Partners in a registered domestic partnership who also are married to one another may file a petition in California Superior Court to dissolve both the domestic partnership and the marriage in a single proceeding.
If you have questions about dissolving a domestic partnership and marriage in these circumstances, you should consult with a private attorney.
Under California law, registered domestic partners generally have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and are subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.
Many of the rights, protections, benefits, responsibilities, obligations and duties under California law are provided in the California Family Code, beginning with section However, questions relating to the specific rights and responsibilities that are not listed in those provisions of the California Family Code should be directed to a private attorney to assist with the evaluation of your specific circumstances and to ensure you receive accurate information.
Although domestic partners can change names at the time of registration, there is no provision in the law to change the registration to reflect subsequent name changes for a domestic partner as appearing in the Domestic Partners Registry. We suggest keeping copies of the legal name change documents with your copy of the Declaration of Domestic Partnership.
One or both partners can change their middle or last names on the Declaration of Domestic Partnership form as part of the registration. Information concerning this name change process can be found in California Family Code sections , Please note however that the address required to be provided by the domestic partners for the registration is a mailing address, rather than a residence address.
Only the registered domestic partners may obtain a copy of their confidential domestic partnership filing. This prohibition does not apply if the previous domestic partnership ended because one of the partners died.
The general assembly declares that a second purpose of the act is to protect individuals who are or may become partners in a civil union against discrimination in employment, housing, and in places of public accommodation. The general assembly further finds that the general assembly, in the exercise of its plenary power, has the authority to define other arrangements, such as a civil union between two unmarried persons regardless of their gender, and to set forth in statute any state-level benefits, rights, and protections to which a couple is entitled by virtue of entering into a civil union.
A marriage between two persons entered into in this state and recognized as valid in this state may be recognized as a marriage, or a relationship that provides substantially the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as a marriage, in another state or jurisdiction if one or both persons travel to or reside in such other state or jurisdiction.
A party to a substantially similar legal relationship as a civil union such as, but not limited to, a domestic partnership, with a different person;. The license shall be issued only after it has been made to appear that no legal impediment to the proposed civil union exists. Each partner shall:. For the purposes of this section, the declaration shall be signed by the domestic partners and shall affirm under penalty of perjury that each domestic partner:.
The legality of the union may be established by civil or religious regulations, as recognized by the laws of Guam. In order to make valid the marriage contract, which shall be permitted between two individuals without regard to gender, it shall be necessary that:. By signing it, two people swear under penalty of perjury that they meet the requirements for a valid reciprocal beneficiary relationship.
A marriage between 2 persons licensed, solemnized and registered as provided in this Act is valid in this State. A party to a civil union is entitled to the same legal obligations, responsibilities, protections, and benefits as are afforded or recognized by the law of Illinois to spouses, whether they derive from statute, administrative rule, policy, common law, or any other source of civil or criminal law.
A civil union, or a substantially similar legal relationship other than common law marriage, legally entered into in another jurisdiction, shall be recognized in Illinois as a civil union.
A marriage, whether of the same sex or different sexes and providing that it is not a common law marriage, legally entered into in another jurisdiction, shall be recognized in this State as a marriage in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, except that Section of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act shall not apply to marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into in another jurisdiction. Marriage is the legally recognized union of 2 people.
Gender-specific terms relating to the marital relationship or familial relationships must be construed to be gender-neutral for all purposes throughout the law, whether in the context of statute, administrative or court rule, policy, common law or any other source of civil law. A marriage of a same-sex couple that is validly licensed and certified in another jurisdiction is recognized for all purposes under the laws of this State.
Registered domestic partners; eligibility. Domestic partners may become registered domestic partners if:. At the time when a declaration under subsection 3 is filed, each domestic partner is a mentally competent adult and not impaired or related in a fashion that would prohibit marriage under Title A, section , subsection 2, 3 or 4;.
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