My Company's Definition of Domestic Partner
I was going through my insurance stuff today as I make doctor and dentist appointments and I happened across the following:
A Domestic Partner is defined as a person of the same or opposite sex who:
- shares your permanent residence;
- has resided with you for no less than one year;
- is no less than 18 years of age;
- is financially interdependent with you and has proven such interdependence by providing documentation of at least two of the following arrangements: common ownership of real property or a common leasehold interest in such property; common ownership of a motor vehicle; a joint bank account or a joint credit account; designation as a benificiary for life insurance or retirement benefits or under yours or your partner's will; assignment of durable power of attorney; or such other proof as is considered by [my company] to be sufficient to establish financial interdependency under the circumstances of your particular case;
- is not a blood relative any closer than would prohibit legal marriage;
- has signed jointly with you, a notarized affidavit which has been made available to [my company].
Both of our employers insure us pretty dang well, so I'm not concerned about going through any of these exercises for insurance purposes. Good to know, though.
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A former co-worker of mine and I were working on a 401k program for a client several years ago, and this came up. (I should note in advance that she's not prejudiced, just very naive.) She thought choosing "domestic partner" as your beneficiary was so you could leave your savings to your cat.
Good times, man. That still makes me giggle.
Sounds like a pretty sensible set of standards. (Though I don't blame you for not wanting to jump through two pair of hoops.)
You know, it's phrases like this:
-is not a blood relative any closer than would prohibit legal marriage;
that make you really shake your head. You know they have to put it in there because SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE tried to claim that.
You know they have to put it in there because SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE tried to claim that.
I know! Can't legislate stupidity, but we sure can try.