SAN FRANCISCO -- California has a new domestic partnership law for heterosexual couples. What has been law for decades in San Francisco now applies to the rest of the state. In a city that has had ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Along with other gays and lesbians in California, the more than 52,000 registered domestic partners still can’t get married. But starting yesterday, if they split up, they’ll have to ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Heterosexual couples now have an alternative to marriage in California. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on Tuesday that lets straight couples register as domestic ...

No one needs to tell Anita Zubere about the legal and economic challenges of being in a domestic partnership rather than a marriage. She has learned from experience. The 62-year-old hypnotherapist ...

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