Laws on so-called “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships ... and to protect the equitable distribution of property when a marriage ends. In so doing, state regulation of marriage ...

The state constitutions of California, Colorado, and Hawaii defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, but ...

How about a church wedding — or a civil union — between a consenting ... In other words, this kind of "privatization" won't take the state out of marriage — it'll simply push its involvement ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Domestic partnerships and civil unions are legal relationships that are recognized on the state level but they're not marriages. They don’t qualify you to file federal taxes as a married couple.

The election of Donald J. Trump to a new term as president has some LGBTQ+ advocates at the Jersey Shore worried about what ...

As advocates worry that marriage equality could go the way of Roe v. Wade, these states have been moving to enshrine ...

Members of the LGBTQIA+ community have often deemed that civil unions accord a subordinate position when compared to marriage. The United States jurisprudence on the issue also sees marriage as a ...

Voters in California, Colorado and Hawaii weighed in on ballot initiatives aimed at removing antiquated language on marriage in their state's Constitution.

Poland's government on Friday submitted a draft law legalising civil unions -- a move ... under the law of a state other than Poland". As it stands such same-sex marriages, even if made in another ...

Colorado voters will decide whether to repeal the state constitution’s now-defunct marriage definition that only recognizes ...

American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii ... Bishops of the United States,” the U.S. bishops state that “the family — based on marriage between a man and a woman — is the first and ...