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New Jersey's Domestic Partnership and Civil Union Acts

By Mark D. Bloomfield
May 26, 2010

Domestic Partnership (“DP”) and Civil Union (“CU”) Acts have opened the door to various benefits for same-sex couples in New Jersey. Along with the benefits come issues and unanswered financial questions that family law practitioners and financial advisers must consider should the relationship end.

A number of states and municipalities have enacted legislation providing for some level of domestic partnership or civil union recognition, while others have taken a polar opposite position. Over 30 states have enacted legislation specifically banning marriage between same-sex couples, while only Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Iowa have specifically and categorically mandated the existence of such marriages. New York recognizes same-sex marriages from other states, but does not allow its own citizens that same opportunity. In January 2010, the New Jersey Senate rejected a same-sex marriage bill. The national debate over “same-sex” marriage continues, with implications that will certainly have an effect on the positions being taken on state and local levels of government.

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