domestic partnership
Americannoun
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the legal status of two unmarried people who live together and are granted certain legal spousal recognitions, such as eligibility for benefits or tax credits.
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Business. an arrangement in which a company based in a developing country collaborates with a foreign-based multinational.
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The case originated in 2024, two years after a family court judge in San Diego dissolved the domestic partnership of Joan Torres Campos and Munoz.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Washington state is a community-property state, meaning that most assets and debts acquired during a marriage or registered domestic partnership are presumed to be marital property.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
Ms. Baldwin herself is not married, though she was in a domestic partnership that has since been dissolved.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Testifying before a Republican-controlled Senate Committee in 2011, Jinkins pushed for the bill by describing her personal experience — carrying wills, her son’s adoption papers, domestic partnership cards, whenever she traveled out of state.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2020
In conjugation two complementary persons may supply one another's deficiencies: in the domestic partnership of marriage they only feel them and suffer from them.
From Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion by Shaw, Bernard
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