The state of California can recognize you and your partner as a couple without marriage. Through a registered domestic partnership, couples can receive state recognition of their relationship, while ...

While numbers remain relatively small, more couples are choosing legal partnerships over marriage. Some are marking the moment with celebrations that look and feel like weddings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AGAWAM — Marriage benefits are for married people, the City Council decided last week. In an 8-2 vote on Feb. 2, councilors ...

Agawam employees must be married to claim benefits for their partner, the City Council decided at a meeting on Feb. 2.

Carrie Sperling and Sue Shapcott moved here from Texas in 2007 knowing that Arizona wouldn’t recognize their same-sex marriage, but at least they would qualify for domestic partner benefits available ...

New research suggests that when given the option between marriage and domestic partnership, same-sex couples in the United States overwhelmingly choose marriage. The findings indicate that marriage ...

PHOENIX – Arizona is close to joining more than a dozen states that offer health and other benefits to domestic partners of state employees, gay or straight. The change would apply to the 65,000 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Along with other gays and lesbians in California, the more than 52,000 registered domestic partners still can’t get married. But starting yesterday, if they split up, they’ll have to ...