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...April 2000. Since then, Massachusetts enacted legislation in 2004 to permit gay marriages and Connecticut enacted a civil union law in May 2005. Several other states including California, Hawaii, Maine and New Jersey offer some spousal fight or domestic partnership type of protection, according to the Human Rights Campaign, Washington.
However, 42 states have statutory Defense of Marriage Acts with 3 of those states defining marriage as between a man and a woman, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver. Eighteen states have defense of marriage in their constitutions and 7 states have neither.
Those states are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
Five years later after Vermont's action, financial and legal advisors are saying that in many...
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