civil union

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civil union, legal recognition of the committed, marriagelike partnership of two individuals. Typically, the civil registration of their commitment provides the couple with legal benefits that approach or are equivalent to those of marriage, such as rights of inheritance, hospital visitation, medical decision making, differential taxation, adoption and artificial insemination, and employee benefits for partners and dependents. Depending upon the jurisdiction, such status may be available only to same-sex couples, to both same-sex and heterosexual couples equally, or to all same-sex and some heterosexual couples. (In some U.S. states, for instance, heterosexual domestic partnerships have been limited to couples in ...(100 of 240 words)