DOMESTIC-PARTNERSHIP LAW

domestic-partnership  law.A  legislative  enactment,  often  a  municipal  ordinance,  that  grants

unmarried  adults  living  in  economically  or  emotionally  based  relationships,  regardless  of  their

sexual  preference,  some  of  the  rights  of  a  civil  marriage  without  attempting  to  change  the

traditional definition of marriage. [Blacks Law 8th]