Las Vegas couples celebrate new domestic partners law

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Domestic partners now recognized

About 750 same- and opposite-sex couples so far have registered to receive their certificates, which guarantee them many of the same rights and responsibilities as married couples.

Those rights include the ability to make health care decisions for each other, hold community property and automatically assume parentage for children. Debt and property are shared.

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Danielle Hill, center, and Angela Turner wait at the Sawyer Building for Deputy Secretary of State Robert Walsh to hand them a certificate recognizing the women as legal domestic partners. Photo by Craig L. Moran.
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Angela Mitchem, left, Lynda M. Hubeny and their son, Oryan Greatwood, 10, of Henderson, look at their new domestic partners papers at the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas on Thursday. Mitchem and Hubeny were among the first couples to receive certificates under a new Nevada law that took effect Thursday. The law grants them many of the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. Photo by Craig L. Moran.
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