Civil union partners - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

Civil union partners are partners who are in a marriage-like legal relationship. If a couple is in a civil union they receive inheritance rights, employment benefits, property, parental rights, etc.

The exact level of rights, benefits, obligations, and responsibilities of civil union partners varies from�jurisdiction�to jurisdiction. For example, some jurisdictions allow civil union partners to adopt, while others forbid them to do so, or only allow adoption�in specified circumstances. Civil union relationships were more common when same-sex marriage was illegal. The United States Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage is legal in every state and each state must recognize a same-sex marriage performed in other states.