Domestic Partnerships
Domestic partnerships are any of a variety of relationships recognized by employers or state or local government. The benefits of domestic relationships range from very limited rights to all the rights afforded to married people by the state, except where federal law makes providing benefits impossible. While most domestic partnership schemes grant those partners limited, enumerated rights, the California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada schemes provide substantially the same rights as marriage and are therefore, essentially, civil unions.
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