Initially, domestic partnerships enjoyed very few privileges principally just hospital-visitation rights and the right to be claimed as a next of kin of the estate of a deceased partner.
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Regardless of their marital status before, the surviving person is now a widow / er . The deceased partner presumably has other worries than their marital status . ..
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Understandably, due to the limited time that one has to prepare a funeral, one may not have time to receive an answer back from these bodies before the deceased partner is buried.
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Whether they received them or not depended on whether the other partners were willing to pay or, if they did not pay, whether the deceased partner's executor was willing to enforce the contract.
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Joint tenancy gives a surviving partner the right to continue living in the shared home without that right being questioned in probate court or taken away by the family of the deceased partner.
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Normal partnership tax treatment will apply with regard to the death or bankruptcy of a partner ( in this case, the deceased partner's interest in the partnership would devolve to his estate ).
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Michelson said, referring to the possibility that a surviving partner may end up owning the property with a relative of the deceased partner whose relationship with the survivor may be strained or even hostile.
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To avoid being implicated in any wrongdoing that comes to light, Adam backdates the trust's inception date and changes the name of the person who started the fund from his to his deceased partner Cedric.
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He is visited first by his deceased partner, marlI', who tells him that he will be visited by three spirits; these will prevent him from sharing marlI's fate of fighting without end and without glory.
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Supported by gay rights activists and the sister of his deceased partner, Mata told reporters that the marriage rule for widows'pensions should not be applied to his case because same-sex marriages are not permitted in Spain.
