If you have a same sex partner, what is your legal status?

[Coyote Says]

If you have a same sex partner, what is your legal status? Are you happy with that status? If you're single, what kind of partnership would you hope for?

I live in California, which allows domestic partnerships only. Marriage is expressly defined as between a man and a woman by law. But for about six months, it looked like California might be the second state to legalize same-sex marriage, or that it least it stood a pretty good chance. I'm including a link to a photo page that I made of that event while we were there. I was married to my partner for about six months before the state Supreme Court declared invalid all the same sex marriages that had occured. We still have our marriage license framed on the desk here. Anyway, if your interested in seeing pictures from the weddings that occurred in San Francisco in 2004, click below. The link is on my own personal web space, so you can be sure that it's safe. :)

http://www.pacificanation.com/album/wedding.html

[Night_Owl49]

Single.

yay me.

[mushie18]

I have a boyfriend.

No legal status.

[KewlDewd66]

I live together with my BF.

We travel a lot and reside at 3 homes altogether. So, it is good.

Nope, we are not married and we shall never be. I do not believe in that institution.

We are both financially secured on individual levels, within reason, and thus, free to do as we find fit.

I love my BF and I know that he feels the same towards me. However, both of us have a great sense of freedom in knowing that our bond does not depend on anything else but our own emotions. No money, no contract, no paperwork, no lawyers...

Nada.

KD

[England83]

I'm legally single, but put down living together as it says something at least! In the UK, there's no such thing as legally living together, you're just single. Boring eh! some companies offer options like "co-habiting", but these are not legal terms.

We're able to have Civil Partnerships which are almost identical to a marriage, except, like California, a marriage is reserved for a Man and Woman. Just to make things even, a Civil Partnership must be a homosexual couple.