The Federal tax treatment of health benefits for domestic partners is an example.
Domestic partners must be at least 18 years old, the same age required for marriage.
They and 38 other couples became the state's first domestic partners.
One police official he was a roommate, not a domestic partner.
"And at this point I believe that should include certified domestic partners."
He is survived by his domestic partner, parents, two brothers and a sister.
They previously were domestic partners registered in the state of California.
Davis is not married, nor does she have a domestic partner, so she'll be going the route of a single mother.
In recent years, many private companies and local governments have voluntarily decided to offer benefits to domestic partners.
She ran away from her first husband in 1975 and began a relationship with the man who would later become her common-law husband.
It was the last time Cherry, 45, was to see her common-law husband alive.
She's separated from her common-law husband, who is unemployed.
Her common-law husband left her last year with their three children and no money.
Stubbs had said something about the cook having her common-law husband with her.
She set up house in a one-room apartment with her common-law husband, a fireman, and had two children.
She drifted into prostitution, picking up a common-law husband along the way.
A man identifying himself as her common-law husband telephoned the hotel room and said in an interview that the children were with him.
Jesus, Nancy's common-law husband, suspects that she is pregnant with a white man's child and leaves her.
She lived with her common-law husband and two children.