The Fund recognizes the status of domestic partner, and under these policies employees are accorded certain rights and benefits with regard to his or her domestic partner. In order to take advantage of these rights and benefits, the employee and domestic partner must:

1.      Meet the following criteria:

A. Have a close, committed personal relationship, and intend to maintain it indefinitely;

B. Live together. (“Living together” means that two people share a place to live. Both parties do not need to be on the rental agreement or deed. One or both people may also have a separate place somewhere else, and like married couples, the domestic partners may experience periods of temporarily living separately due to family, work or other demands.);

C. Agree to be responsible for each other’s basic living expenses (food and shelter) during their domestic partnership and that anyone who is owed these expenses can collect from either of them;

D. Be at least the age of consent in the state in which they reside;

E.  Be unmarried;

F.  Not be related to the other by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit marriage if they are of the opposite sex, or were they of the opposite sex;

G. Not have a different domestic partner now;

2.  Execute an Affidavit of Marriage/Domestic Partnership (see Appendix A); and

3.  Agree to notify the Fund’s Personnel & Benefits Administrator if the domestic partnership is terminated.

Some documentation may be required to provide proof of cohabitation and financial interdependence.