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Article: EDITORIAL: New Jersey offers civil unions
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- February 20, 2007
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Staff Editorial
University Wire
02-20-2007
(The Pitt News) (U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH -- Following in the footsteps of Vermont and Connecticut, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state legislature had to create new laws that offered same-sex couples full rights. The result? Civil unions.
According to the law signed at 12:01 a.m. on Monday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine, same-sex couples will now be able to take each other's surnames without a court hearing, receive inheritances from spouses and jointly adopt children, according to The New York Times. Under the state's domestic partnership law, which the court deemed to be inadequate under the constitution, same-sex couples already had access to ...