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Domestic Partnership Registry

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Hillsborough Domestic Partner Registry Talk Resurfaces, Sinks

Instead of a registry, the commission is considering making legal documents affording some rights more readily available to residents.

Carrollwood and Northdale residents living together in committed relationships without the bonds of marriage tying them together won’t be able to join a registry that affords them some rights to make decisions for each other. The Hillsborough County Commission, instead, has decided to make it easier for same-sex and other unwed couples to file the legal papers needed to afford them some decision-making rights. The idea to create a packet of legal documents that reflect laws already on the books in regard to medical surrogacy and other major life decisions was brought up by Commissioner Al Higginbotham during the commission’s March 20 meeting. Higginbotham wants the county to create a packet of documents for residents to easily access …

Friday, January 25, 2013

Hillsborough Says 'No' to Domestic Partnership Registry

Hillsborough County Commissioners opted against pursuing a registry for same-sex partners during Thursday's meeting.

A measure that would have given same-sex partners more freedom to make medical and financial decisions for each other failed to get the support it needed from Hillsborough County Commissioners on Thursday. The board voted 4-3 against creating a Domestic Partnership Registry for Hillsborough County. Commissioners Al Higginbothom, Sandra Murman and Victor Crist voted against the motion. Commissioners Mark Sharpe, Kevin Beckner and Les Miller voted in favor. Commissioner Mark Sharpe introduced the measure. "As a citizen who lives in this county and as tax payer aren't they owed the respect and right to have these six basic rights and services that government itself provides," Sharpe said. The City of Tampa approved a domestic partnership …

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David Hardingham

4:32 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013

yes Hillsborough has grown as Pinellas has little room to left but we had the swamps, marshes and parries which turned into new Tampa and when Teco cleaned up there horrible coal plant in south Tampa that grayed the sky and put a layer after layer of toxic soot on everything make the area much nice so Brandon’s growth went into that area as well as the forests and farms of Valrico. With all that …   more ›

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