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Domestic Partnership: Recognition And Responsibility, Raymond C. O'Brien

San Diego Law Review

time of this Article, partnerships had conferred benefits only: both business and political. This author argues that domestic partnerships should also include responsibilities of support, commitment and obligation within the economic partnership construct of emerging family law. The author concludes that this inclusion of responsibility in domestic partnerships by homosexual couples would lend credence to due process arguments of both equality and substance.