Mayor, the Council expects that expanded OK DP bill
The DC-Council is expected that final approval of 3 to January a bill that would require vis-à-vis same-sex couples and as national partners to meet a number of duties and responsibilities , Until now, only married heterosexual couples.
Maintenance and child benefit payments in cases where the partners split up, and responsibility for the resumption of debt to a partner for a mortgage the house and other property are among the institutions the provisions of the vast Domestic Partnership Equality Act 2005.
The bill maintains the language in the hometown domestic law of the expansion of Health Care Act of 1992, allows parents to blood - as a mother and an adult son or daughter - to register as domestic partners.
DC and Hawaii are the only jurisdictions to see blood on their national law partners, but the law does not contain Hawaii of maintenance for subsistence and children commitments.
Language allows contrary, couples register as domestic partners, even after the new legislation DC, and DC, Hawaii and Maine court alone for in-the-board partners registry against party couples. But Maine, Hawaii, contain no under-payment and dependent children of their obligations in the legislation of partner countries.
Other states like California and New Jersey, unlike limit for registration for sex couples with at least one partner is 62 years or more.
National partners DC law allows two unmarried persons aged 18 years, live together and are financially dependent on each other to register as domestic partners.
D. C. The Council has the final D.P. Bill by unanimous voice vote on December 6, the first in a “first reading” Give opinion. Mayor Anthony Williams is expected to sign the law expected after its “second reading” approval. It would, quite rightly, 30 days after Congress verify if the Congress does not veto the legislation.
Many gay activists to support the bill, conducted last February by Coucilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) as a vehicle for gay couples significantly to a level close to the amount of couples DC - Right.
In addition to the new obligations, the law grants rights to inherit full national partners by recognizing each partner and partners that children must be a partner heirs die without writing a will. The bill also provides immunity to witnesses against a partner in civil or criminal, in order to bring an action for negligence in the event of death is illegal and reserves the right, legally “pre-marriage agreement.
The legislation also provides for powers of financial management, medical and legal, if a partner is invalid, and provides the legal protection of private talks between partners with doctors and religious personalities like the minister, priests or rabbis.
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