{"id":671,"date":"2011-05-12T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=671"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:15","slug":"delaware-recognizes-civil-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2011\/05\/12\/delaware-recognizes-civil-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware recognizes civil unions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Jack Markell has signed a bill adding Delaware to the list of states that authorize the creation of civil unions for same-sex couples that have the same rights as married couples under state law.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/12\/136224711\/delaware-governor-signs-civil-unions-bill-into-law?sc=ipad&amp;f=1001\">read article&nbsp;<\/a>The list of states that recognizes civil unions now includes California, Delaware,&nbsp;Hawai`i,&nbsp;Illinois, Nevada,New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington.&nbsp;States that recognize domestic partnership arrangements that have more limited rights include Colorado, Maine, Maryland, and Wisconsin.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdalegal.org\/publications\/articles\/nationwide-status-same-sex-relationships.html\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jurisdictions that authorize same-sex marriage are Connecticut, District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont. In California, 18,000 couples were married before the constitutional amendment was approved abolishing same-sex marriage. New York and Maryland recognize marriages celebrated in states that recognize them. Rhode Island recognizes out-of-state same-sex marriages for some purposes, while California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New Mexico recognizes such marriages as civil unions.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/default.aspx?tabid=16430\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/marital-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marital Property<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/sexual-orientation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sexual Orientation<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jack Markell has signed a bill adding Delaware to the list of states that authorize the creation of civil unions for same-sex couples that have the same rights as married couples under state law.&nbsp;read article&nbsp;The list of states that recognizes civil unions now includes California, Delaware,&nbsp;Hawai`i,&nbsp;Illinois, Nevada,New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington.&nbsp;States that recognize domestic partnership arrangements that have more limited rights include Colorado, Maine, Maryland, and Wisconsin.&nbsp;read article Jurisdictions that authorize same-sex marriage are Connecticut, District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont. In California, 18,000 couples were married before the constitutional amendment was approved abolishing same-sex marriage. New York and Maryland recognize marriages celebrated in states that recognize them. Rhode Island recognizes out-of-state same-sex marriages for some purposes, while California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New Mexico recognizes such marriages as civil unions.\u00a0read article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marital-property","category-sexual-orientation"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}