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• Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance

  Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters...

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• Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Agreements, Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance

  Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters...

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• Heterosexual Supremacists Circulate Even Worse Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage

  Marriage. Elimination of Domestic Partnership Rights. Constitutional Amendment.Summary Date: 7/16/07Circulation Deadline: 12/13/07Signatures Required: 694,354Proponent: Larry Bowler and Randy ThomassonProvides that only marriage between one man and one woman is valid or recognized in California. Prohibits decreasing marriage rights shared by

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• Appellate Court Ruling Protects Domestic Partner Property Rights

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Courts, California, Sexual Orientation, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Lgbt

  that treats registered domestic partners as married couples."Domestic partners have the same right as husbands and wives to accept or inheritreal estate from one another without big property tax increase, a stateappeals court ruled Tuesday," reports the Chron's Bob Egelko. "In a victory forsame-sex couples, the Third District Court of

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• Oregon Heterosexual Supremacists Fail To Gather Signatures To Repeal Domestic partnerships

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Oregon

  couples plan to file for domestic partnership status as soon as the new law takes effect Jan. 1.[...]Oregon's domestic partnerships measure covers benefits relating to inheritance rights, child-rearing and custody, joint state tax filings, joint health, auto and homeowners insurance policies, visitation rights at hospitals and others. It does

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• Governor Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill (Again)

  Published: October 13, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: Ballot Measures, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  recognizing and respecting domesticpartnerships. I believe that all Californians are entitled to fullprotection under the law and should not be discriminated againstbased upon their sexual orientation. I support current domesticpartnership rights and will continue to vigorously defend andenforce these rights.In 2000, the voters approved

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• Marriage Licenses, Still $1 Off

  Published: October 15, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Government Politics, City Hall, Domestic Partnership, Marriage

  It still costs $1 more to register a domestic partnership than it costs to get a marriage license, but the mayor's office hopes to change that.

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• Marriage and Domestic Partnerships Roundup

  Published: November 1, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: New Jersey, Domestic Partnership, Rhose Island, Marriage

  the news about marriage and domestic partnerships.In Rhode Island, the General Assembly has over-ridden the veto of a bill to provide domestic partners of public employees with the same pension and retirement benefits as spouses.In New Jersey, the Rutgers-Eagleton poll was released which found that 48% of respondents supported marriage for

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• Uruguay To Legalize Same-Sex Civil Unions Soon

  Published: December 2, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Civil Unions, Uruguay, Domestic Partnership, Latino, International, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  Blabbeando reports that Uruguay will become the first South American country to legalize same-sex unions nationwide next month, when the upper legislative house reconciles its previously passed bill with a bill that passed the lower house recently. The law would allow gay and straight couples who have lived together for 5 years to register their

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• Uruguay and Hungary Enact Civil Unions Laws

  Published: December 20, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Civil Unions, Hungary, Europe, Uruguay, Domestic Partnership, Lgbt

  has enacted the Registered Partnership Act, which would allow same-sex couples to have access to many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage in the eastern European country.

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• Oregon DP Law Enjoined From Going Into Effect January 1

  Published: December 28, 2007, 8:52 pm

  Tags: Law, Statewide Initiatives, Lesbian, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Lgbt, Oregon

  Fairness Act, a statewide domestic partnership act which was enacted by the Democratic-controlled Oregon Legislature and signed into law by Governor Ted Kulongoski on May 9, 2007 has been prevented from going to effect on Tuesday January 1 by an injunction issued at the behest of heterosexual supremacists at the Alliance Defense Fund in an

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• NEWS FLASH: California Gay Marriage Ruling BY June 4th

  Published: February 6, 2008, 4:49 pm

  Tags: Law, Courts, California, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Lgbt, Marriage

  relationships such as domestic partnerships. To join the fight to preserve Equality for All Californians, visit Equality for All. The other side has already qualified a similar ballot measure in Florida, but much cleverly, that amendment needs a 60% margin in order to become enacted, a public policy I believe that California should adopt

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• CA Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Gay Marriage Case Tuesday

  Published: March 3, 2008, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Courts, California, Domestic Partnership, Gay Rights, Heterosexual Supremacists, Lgbt, Marriage

  The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases on Tuesday March 4th from 9am-12noon PST. The interest in this case is so great that the court has set up a separate portion of its website to provide information on the case. The same sex marriage case is really an amalgam of a number of various legal actions,

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• Washington DP Bill Passes Legislature

  Published: March 6, 2008, 11:00 am

  Tags: Washington, Legislation, Domestic Partnership, Lgbt

  of registered domestic partners. Governor Christine Gregoire, who is running for re-election, has agreed to sign the bill into law.Washington state enacted a statewide domestic partner registry last year which went into effect in July 2007 with a modest number of rights and benefits. HB 1304 would add an estimated 160 rights and

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• Anti-LGBT Marriage Amendment Fails To Clear AZ Legislature

  Published: April 7, 2008, 3:14 am

  Tags: Civil Unions, Statewide Initiatives, Homophobia, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Arizona, Marriage

  Finally some good news on the gay marriage front. According to 365gay.com and Equality Arizona:Bills that constitutionally limit would limit marriage to opposite-sex couples were filed earlier this year in both the House and Senate by Republican lawmakers and appeared to have enough support for passage.But just before the House was to vote Rep.

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