DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP

By SovConn | July 23, 2014

domestic  partnership.  1.  A  nonmarital  relationship  between  two  persons  of  the  same  or

opposite sex who live together as a couple for a significant period of time. 2. A relationship that an

employer  or  governmental  entity  recognizes  as  equivalent  to  marriage  for  the  purpose  of

extending employee-partner benefits otherwise reserved for the spouses of employees. Cf. CIVIL

UNION; same-sex marriage under MARRIAGE(1). — domestic partner,n. [Blacks Law 8th]

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