Domestic Partner News |
Editorial Comment
This section of the website reports news affecting domestic partners. The term “domestic partners” has generally been defined by law as two adults who live together, who are financially and emotionally interdependent, and who consider themselves to be a family.
Sometimes the news in this section is dominated by stories focusing on the extension of domestic partner benefits and protections to same-sex couples. When that happens, it is because those are the stories which have appeared recently in newspapers.
The American Association for Single People
supports the creation of registries and the extension of benefits and protections to any
two unmarried adults who share a common household as a family unit. AASP supports
laws and benefits programs which do not exclude people on the basis of sex or sexual
orientation.
Stories Posted on Thursday, June 28 2002
Law extends death benefits to beneficiaries of unmarried peace officers
New England private schools extends domestic partner benefits to teachers
Michigan judge stays in second parent adoption hearings
Supreme Court of Arkansas to hear arguments against anti-gay sodomy law
Maryland high court upholds domestic partner benefits law
New Quebec law give equality to same-sex parents
Stories Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Governor hopeful supports same-sex marriage
University of Colorado regents try revive domestic partner benefits plan
Story Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Domestic partners to receive Sept. 11 aid
Story Posted on Friday, June 20, 2002
Durham city council rejects domestic partner benefits for city employees
Story Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Bloomington, Indiana wants high court ruling on rental occupancy law
Stories Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Canadian Supreme Court reserves ruling on Matrimonial Property Act case
California senator pushing for property tax relief for unmarried couples in state
Massachusetts high court upholds marriage question on ballot
9-11 benefits fund for domestic partners pulled by Cong. Dick Armey
Story Posted on Friday, June 14, 2002
Judge resumes adoption petitions by unmarried partners in Michigan county
Stories Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2002
New York woman appeals custody case with domestic partner
Rev. Jerry Falwell attacks Nickelodeon show on same-sex parents
Story Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Canadian government eases immigration rules for skilled domestic partners
Story Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002
D.C. broadens domestic partner health benefits
Story Posted on Friday, June 7, 2002
Sweden approves proposal on domestic partner child adoption
Stories Posted on Thursday, June 6, 2002
Michigan, Washtenaw county judge blocks domestic partner adoptions
South Carolina’s attorney general calls for protection of traditional families
Salvation Army loses financial support for not complying to Portland, Maine’s dp ordinance
Stories Posted on Sunday, June 2, 2002
Akron landlord wants Ohio’s Civil Rights Commission ruling on unwed couple rental overturned
California Senate approves domestic partner property tax help
Stories Posted on Saturday, June 1, 2002
Pennsylvania judge hears parental rights argument of estranged domestic partner
Psychoanalytic group calling for an end in same-sex couples from child adoption ban
