“In the summer of 2020, the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, passed the first multiple-partner domestic partnership ordinance in the country. Spurred by the pandemic, the city council acknowledged residents’ inability to access their partners’ health insurance without legal recognition of their relationships. Its members voted unanimously to adopt a domestic partnership law. The novel ordinance defined ‘domestic partnership’ as ‘the entity formed by people’, fulfilling six criteria – including that they ‘are in a relationship of mutual support, caring and commitment and intend to remain in such a relationship’, ‘reside together’, and ‘consider themselves to be a family’ …” (more)
‘Three’s Company, Too: The Emergence of Polyamorous Partnership Ordinances’, 135 Harvard Law Review 1441 (10 March).
First posted 2022-03-11 12:00:56
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