Delaware Civil Union Notice
Medical Protective recognizes the rights afforded to individuals under The Delaware Civil Union & Equality Act of 2011 including the following:
Parties to a civil union shall have all of the same rights, protections and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations and duties, under Delaware law as are granted to, enjoyed by, or imposed upon married spouses. A party to a civil union shall be included in any definition or use of the terms "dependent", "family", "husband and wife", "immediate family", "next of kin", "spouse", "stepparent", "tenants by the entirety", and other terms, whether or not gender-specific, that denote a spousal relationship or a person in a spousal relationship, as those terms are used throughout Delaware law. For all purposes of Delaware laws that refer to marriage or marital status, other than Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Delaware Code, parties to a civil union will be included in such reference. The Act automatically recognizes as civil unions for all purposes of Delaware law legal unions between two persons of the same sex, such as civil unions, marriages and domestic partnerships that are validly formed in jurisdictions other than Delaware and are substantially similar to Delaware civil unions.