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July 01, 2009 04:58 PM UTC
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I hope so, I am writing my next diary right now as I negotiate Red Mnt. Pass…
What benefits a married couple would have that this new “designated beneficiary” law doesn’t provide?
No joint income tax filing, no Social Security benefits, and it still depends on your employer whether you can add an unmarried partner to health coverage. There are some other legal relationships you can’t designate or set in a contract but that exist between married couples — for instance, can’t be forced to testify against each other.
This would force the GOP to either oppose tax cuts or support gay partner benefit equity.
to have sex with the same partner.
Oops, did I read that wrong?
1,100 federal benefits plus many at the state level, not the least of which is filing taxes jointly.
Designated beneficiary agreements do not provide for combined assets, nor is there any provision for divorce. You can cancel the agreement, but that’s basically akin to changing the non-spouse beneficiary on your life insurance or 401(k). A married person has a legal claim against the joint future income in case the couple divorces, which is why we have things like alimony happen. There is no such provision in the designated beneficiary agreement law.
There is also no public recognition. It gets filed like a real estate contract. It will not show up in any vital statistics summaries.
Most of the benefits apply after one of the beneficiaries dies
Let’s not diminish the benefits available under the new law, but you’re absolutely right, it’s far short of the benefits a married couple enjoy.
to senior couples who don’t want to marry because of social security and other financial concerns. Both of my parents have partners to whom they are not legally married (they’ve been divorced from one another for about 45 years and each has been married and widowed in the intervening years) and this will be very helpful for them, particularly my father whose significant other has a very unstable son with mental illness issues who doesn’t like him much. Now he and his wife-in-all-but-name of the past 12 years can make sure he has the right to be by her side and be designated to make decisions.
Of all the legislation I’ve worked on over the years, seeing the new Designated Beneficiaries law take effect was one of my proudest moments. Big thanks to Rep. Ferrandino and Sen. Veiga for sponsoring the law and to all those who helped craft its provisions. This is far from equality, but a major step forward in providing pragmatic protections for the real life events that couples must face. Glad to see that so many people are aware of the new law and its strengths and limitations – find out more at http://www.designatedbeneficia…
Kudos to you and all involved – these steps are what is getting us closer to the day we have true equal rights for all.
just to be clear the law change doesn’t allow all of us to catch rain water. It’s specific and mostly rural and far exurban.
But it applies equally across sexual and gender preference.
Same-sex couples also have to pay the exorbitant late fees at the DMV. But they can also stay up all night betting $100 limits at the casinos, just like straight couples.