List of California Domestic Partnership benefits, submitted by Bonne Callaway.

1.  Making health care decisions for each other in certain circumstances.

2.  Hospital and jail visitation rights that were previously reserved for family members related by  blood, adoption or marriage to the sick, injured or incarcerated person.

3.  Access to family health insurance plans (Cal. Ins. Code §10121.7)

4.  Spousal insurance policies (auto, life, homeowners etc..), this applies to all forms of insurance through the California Insurance Equality Act (Cal. Ins. Code §381.5).

5.  Sick care and similar family leave.

6. Stepparent adoption procedures.

7. Presumption that both members of the partnership are the parents of a child born into the partnership.

8. Suing for wrongful death of a domestic partner.

9. Rights involving wills, intestate succession, conservatorships and trusts.

10.The same property tax provisions otherwise available only to married couples (Cal. R&T Code §62p).

11. Access to some survivor pension benefits.

12. Supervision of the Superior Court of California over dissolution and nullity proceedings.

13. The obligation to file state tax returns as a married couple (260k) commencing with the 2007 tax year (Cal R&T Code §18521d).

14. The right for either partner to take the other partner’s surname after registration.

15. Community property rights and responsibilities previously only available to married spouses.

16. The right to request partner support (alimony) upon dissolution of the partnership (divorce).

17. The same parental rights and responsibilities granted to and imposed upon spouses in a marriage

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