NY State Bar Ass'n Approves Rights for GLBT Couples

April 6, 2005

ALBANY, NY — On April 2, 2005 at the New York State Bar Assn's recent annual meeting, the NYSBA's House of Delegates approved a Resolution of the Special Committee to Study Issues Affecting Same-Sex Couples.

The House voted to call on the Legislature to enact legislation that will afford committed same-sex couples the ability to obtain the comprehensive set of rights and responsibilities now afforded opposite-sex couples through a statute creating a domestic partnership registry, a civil union statute, or an amendment to the statutory definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. It is left to the Legislature, in the exercise of its policy-making authority, to choose the appropriate option.