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Earlier this month President Obama signed a memo that gave long-term care benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. Here’s a PDF of the memo.
What are the requirements?
To qualify for federal long-term care benefits, you and your partner must sign a Declaration of Domestic Partnership. In the declaration, you and your partner state that [...]
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A news article has been circulating the past couple days with the title, “In Florida, Gay Adoption May No Longer Be Forbidden.”
But the headline is misleading–gay adoption in Florida is no more legal than it’s been since it was banned in 1977. All that’s happened is three state courts granting an adoption to gay couples.
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Before the Maryland attorney general said that the state would immediately begin recognizing out-of-state gay marriages, insurance companies doing business in Maryland already had to give coverage to domestic partners of employees in the state if their employers requested it.
The Maryland Insurance Administration is investigating whether it now needs to update regulations about insurance sales [...]
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When a relationship starts getting serious, people think about living together. For some couples, this happens after just a few months. Others might wait a year or more before deciding to move in together.
Often, especially for younger couples, this means moving into one person’s apartment or other rented home. Here are the legal issues you [...]
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Unless they live in a gay marriage state, same-sex couples don’t have access to marriage laws that say how property and income brought into a relationship is treated. Instead, partners need to come up with a system to handle their finances.
Here are the most popular ways and their consequences:
As a Traditional Marriage
Under this model, couples [...]
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The Maryland attorney general today said that the state should recognize gay marriages performed in other states. Here’s the text [PDF] of the attorney general’s opinion.
This would make Maryland and New York the only states that don’t allow gay marriage themselves, but do recognize ones from states where gay marriage is legal.
But be careful what [...]
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