And when I wailed again in response to this one, elfwreck responded after this wise:
"Domestic partners do not have, as far as I know:
* Privileged communication * Conjugal visits in prison * Automatic inheritance without a will * Automatic inclusion on each others' health insurance * Legal parenthood of a child born to the other partner (in CA, if a married woman has a baby, the husband is legally the father, regardless of biology--he cannot claim "that's not my child" & refuse to pay for its upbringing. No idea how this ties to f-f marriages; I don't think it's come up yet.)
And, of course, all the social issues tied to the word "marriage"... if they're "just the same," why doesn't anyone get divorced in order to get a domestic partnership? You'd think that, comparing the various federal benefits of one or the other (income tax is the big one that comes to mind), it'd sometimes be advantageous to have a DP rather than a marriage."
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Date: 2008-10-25 01:24 am (UTC)"Domestic partners do not have, as far as I know:
* Privileged communication
* Conjugal visits in prison
* Automatic inheritance without a will
* Automatic inclusion on each others' health insurance
* Legal parenthood of a child born to the other partner (in CA, if a married woman has a baby, the husband is legally the father, regardless of biology--he cannot claim "that's not my child" & refuse to pay for its upbringing. No idea how this ties to f-f marriages; I don't think it's come up yet.)
And, of course, all the social issues tied to the word "marriage"... if they're "just the same," why doesn't anyone get divorced in order to get a domestic partnership? You'd think that, comparing the various federal benefits of one or the other (income tax is the big one that comes to mind), it'd sometimes be advantageous to have a DP rather than a marriage."