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Domestic partnership, the Glossary

A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else).^[1]

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Adult adoption

Adult adoption is a form of adoption between two or more adults in order to transfer inheritance rights and/or filiation.

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Alliance of Free Democrats

The Alliance of Free Democrats – Hungarian Liberal Party (Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége – a Magyar Liberális Párt, SZDSZ) was a liberal political party in Hungary.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Christine Gregoire

Christine Gregoire (née O'Grady; born March 24, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Washington from 2005 to 2013.

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Civil marriage

A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official.

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Civil partnership in the United Kingdom

Civil partnership in the United Kingdom is a form of civil union between couples open to both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples.

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Civil solidarity pact

In France, a civil solidarity pact (pacte civil de solidarité), commonly known as a PACS, is a contractual form of civil union between two adults for organising their joint life.

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A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples. Domestic partnership and civil union are state recognition of same-sex relationships.

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Civil union in New Zealand

Civil union has been legal in New Zealand since 26 April 2005.

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Cohabitation

Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. Domestic partnership and Cohabitation are family.

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Cohabitation agreement

A cohabitation agreement is a form of legal agreement reached between a couple who have chosen to live together (whether they are heterosexual or homosexual).

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Common-law marriage

Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute, is a marriage that results from the parties' agreement to consider themselves married and subsequent cohabitation, rather than through a statutorily defined process.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.

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Concurrent estate

In property law, a concurrent estate or co-tenancy is any of various ways in which property is owned by more than one person at a time.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Emiel Feinstein (June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023.

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Effects of marriage

In family law, effects of marriage is a legal term of art used to describe all of the rights and obligations that individuals may be subject and entitled to if they are in a common-law marriage, an annulled marriage, domestic partnership or a civil union.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Free union

A free union is a romantic union between two or more persons without legal or religious recognition or regulation.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gender

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.

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Harry Britt

Harry Britt (June 8, 1938 – June 24, 2020) was an American politician and gay rights activist.

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Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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The Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt), commonly known by its acronym MSZP, is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love.

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Jim Doyle

James Edward Doyle Jr. (born November 23, 1945) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Wisconsin from 2003 to 2011.

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John Heilman

John William Heilman is an American municipal politician and city councilmember of West Hollywood, California.

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Leon Panetta

Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is an American retired politician and government official who has served under several Democratic administrations as Secretary of Defense (2011–2013), director of the CIA (2009–2011), White House Chief of Staff (1994–1997), director of the Office of Management and Budget (1993–1994), and as a U.S.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. Domestic partnership and Marriage are family.

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Napoleonic Code

The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French (simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Jersey Legislature

The New Jersey Legislature is the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oregon Family Fairness Act

The Oregon Family Fairness Act is a state law in the U.S. state of Oregon that made domestic partnerships legal in Oregon.

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Palimony in the United States

Palimony is the division of financial assets and real property on the termination of a personal live-in relationship wherein the parties are not legally married.

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Popular initiative

A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition.

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Portland Press Herald

The Portland Press Herald (abbreviated as PPH; Sunday edition Maine Sunday Telegram) is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership.

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Property (Relationships) Act 1976

The Property (Relationships) Act 1976 is a New Zealand statute that primarily deals with the division of property of married couples, de facto couples and civil union couples when they separate or when one of them dies.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Recognition of same-sex unions in Tasmania

Tasmania's Relationships Act 2003 provided for registration and recognition of a type of registered partnership in two distinct categories: Significant Relationships and Caring Relationships.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. Domestic partnership and same-sex marriage are state recognition of same-sex relationships.

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Same-sex marriage in California

Same-sex marriage has been legal in California since June 28, 2013.

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Same-sex marriage in Hawaii

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Hawaii since December 2, 2013.

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Same-sex marriage in Washington (state)

Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in the US state of Washington since December 6, 2012.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Human Rights Commission

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is a charter commission of the City and County of San Francisco that works to increase equality, eradicate discrimination, and to protect human rights for all people.

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Solidarity tax on wealth

The solidarity tax on wealth (Impôt de solidarité sur la fortune, ISF) was an annual direct wealth tax on those in France having assets in excess of €1,300,000 (since 2011).

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Supreme Court of New Jersey

The Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Ted Kulongoski

Theodore Ralph Kulongoski (born November 5, 1940) is an American politician, judge, and lawyer who served as the 36th Governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tom Brougham

Tom Brougham (born March 20, 1943) is a Berkeley, California gay rights activist who was the first to suggest a new legal category for recognizing couples other than marriage, and who coined the phrase domestic partnership.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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United States v. Windsor

United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013), is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case concerning same-sex marriage.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Wisconsin Senate

The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature.

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Wisconsin State Assembly

The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest appellate court in Wisconsin.

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2006 Wisconsin Referendum 1

Wisconsin Referendum 1 of 2006 was a referendum on an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that would invalidate same-sex marriages or any substantially similar legal status.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership

Also known as Domestic Partner, Domestic partner agreement, Domestic partners, Domestic partnership benefits, Domestic partnerships, Domestic union, Registered domestic partner, Same-sex partnership, Same-sex partnerships, .

Domestic partnership, the Glossary

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State recognition of same-sex relationships

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