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Decision makers must focus on
important issues including education,
healthcare and other urgent issues the state faces and
we can help by becoming more visible and dismantling
stereotypes about our lives.
If you would
like to get involved or have questions, please call us
at 336-5096 or email yffn@yffn.org.
YFFN would like to thank the nearly 300 people that
visited the YFFN website to contact their senators and
invite you to get involved in our organization.
There are many ways to do this including: becoming
a member, donating, joining a committee, coming to our
events, and volunteering.
How
To Get Involved In Three Simple Steps!
1.
First, become a paid member by contributing an amount
that is meaningful to you. YFFN
membership will allow you to keep on top of the issues
we're advocating at the state capitol and across Idaho.
YFFN is going exciting places in 2005 - and with your
paid membership, you can be right there with us.
Click here to learn how
to join YFFN
2.
Next, sign up to volunteer at an event like Pride, offer
to help in the office or join one of these
committees: Campaign Organizing, Membership,
Fundraising, Youth Organizing, or
Publicity/Marketing. We can set up a volunteer
interview to see what you would be most successful doing
and best of all, we'll provide the training! Email
yffn@yffn.org to get
started!
3.
Finally, show up at the designated times you have
committed to volunteering! If your time is limited
and you'd like to help, consider giving a donation
instead.
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Denying same-sex couples the right to
marry in Idaho shuts couples and families
out of more than 500 rights, protections
and responsibilities. Here are the top
100:
- No
automatic right to make health care
decisions for partner
- No
automatic right to visit partner in
the hospital
- No
right to sue for wrongful death if
partner negligently killed
- No
right to consent or refuse consent to
an autopsy of partner’s body
- No
vested right to be buried in cemetery
plot with partner
- No
automatic right to inherit cemetery
plot
- No
automatic right to make arrangements
for funeral or dispose of deceased
partner’s body
- No
right to donate partner's body or
organs after death
- No
automatic right to inherit deceased
partner’s estate
- A
prior will is not automatically
revoked when entering a new
relationship
- A
prior will is not automatically
revoked when the relationship ends
- No
right to be notified in a public
notice before partner’s will is
destroyed by an attorney
- No
preference to be appointed personal
representative of deceased partner’s
estate
- No
right to continue to live in the
deceased partner’s home for one year
after partner’s death
- No
automatic right to notice in matters
involving deceased partner’s estate
- No
right to support from deceased
partner’s estate
- No
right to demand one-quarter share of
partner's estate if will leaves less
than that
- No
automatic right to notice that a
conservatorship or guardianship is
being filed against partner unless
currently living together
- May
not get highest preference by court to
be appointed as guardian or
conservator for incapacitated partner
- No
right to private visits in long-term
care facility
- No
right to share a room in long-term
care facility
- No
right to file joint tax return
- No
right to name partner as health care
decision-maker when partner is serving
as physician
- No
right to rollover IRA upon partner's
death and continue tax deferral
- Surviving
partner may have to pay inheritance
tax when first partner dies
- No
automatic right to receive deceased
partner’s unpaid state salary and
other moneys due
- No
right to maintain deceased veteran's
property tax exemption
- No
right to claim senior or disabled
property tax deferral when property is
jointly owned but only one partner
qualifies
- No
right to continue deferral of previous
taxes deferred by deceased partner
even though surviving partner is
currently eligible for deferral
- No
protection against impoverishment if
disabled partner needs Medicaid
benefits for long-term care
- Cannot
transfer residence or other assets to
partner without causing the disabled
partner to become ineligible for
Medicaid
- When
partner who received Medicaid dies,
the state can recover the amount paid
against the estate of the deceased
partner even while the surviving
partner is still alive
- No
right to
require suppliers to repurchase
deceased retailer’s inventory
- Partner
of retailer has no cause of action
against non-paying suppliers on
cancellation of a retailer agreement
- Not
automatically an “authorized
driver” on partner’s rental car
- No
absolute right to transfer a franchise
or dealership to partner
- No
right to be a designated successor in
deceased partner’s retail dealership
- No
right to partner’s Oregon Medical
Insurance Pool coverage
- No
automotive personal injury protection
benefits for partner
- No
right to coverage under partner’s
health benefit plan
- No
automatic right to obtain life
insurance on partner
- No
uninsured motorist insurance coverage
for partner
- No
right to spousal cash surrender
valuation of term life insurance on
partner
- No
right to coverage under deceased
partner’s group health insurance
plan.
- No
protection for partner’s home in
bankruptcy
- Private
conversations with partner are not
protected in court
- Conversations
with a marriage counselor are not
protected in court
- No
automatic education on fetal alcohol
syndrome
- No
court-ordered counseling upon divorce
- No
court-ordered life insurance upon
divorce
- Partner
not responsible for family expenses
- No
automatic paternity for children
- Must
testify against partner in a court
case
- Must
surrender home to satisfy lien for
partner’s unpaid medical treatment
in long-term care facility
- No
right to sue long-term care facility
that fails to discharge lien in a
timely manner once overdue charges for
partner are paid
- No
right to avoid court appointment of a
property manager during foreclosure of
partner’s home
- No
right to maintain a dwelling on EFU
(exclusive farm use) property even if
occupied by farm operator’s partner
- No
right to maintain a dwelling in a farm
or forest zone even if lawfully
created or acquired by the owner’s
partner
- No
right as a partner to a landowner to
obtain a “landowner preference tag”
for hunting from the Fish &
Wildlife Commission
- No
right to examine or get copy of
autopsy report of deceased partner
- No
right to receive personal effects from
deceased partner’s body
- No
access to partner’s death
record
- No
automatic right of survivorship for
jointly owned real property
- No
right to sell property qualified for
farm use assessment to partner without
disqualification
- No
right to loss of support payments from
the state crime victims' compensation
fund if partner killed in a crime.
-
No
right to family therapy from state
crime victims’ compensation fund in
case of child sexual abuse
-
No
right to crisis counseling through
state crime victims' compensation fund
if partner is a victim of
international terrorism
-
No
right to exclude capital gain on
principal residence based on partner's
ownership
-
Must
pay taxes on employer health insurance
benefits for partner
-
No
right to receive deceased partner’s
wages
-
No
right to deceased partner's wage claim
against non-paying employer
-
No
right to work on partner's farm for
less than minimum wage
-
No
eligibility for scholarship if partner
is disabled or killed on the job
-
No
right to sue for partner's death that
was a result of an unsafe workplace
-
No
right to workers’ compensation
benefits if partner disabled or killed
on the job
-
No
right to opt out of workers’
compensation insurance as a family
business
-
No
right to sue non-employer for negligently
killing partner on the job
-
No
right to continue workers’
compensation benefits until remarriage
if partner is killed or disabled on
the job
-
Required
to comply with childcare facility
regulations when caring only for
partner's children
-
No
automatic right to special retirement
benefit after death of partner who was
a police officer or a firefighter
-
No
right as unmarried couple with
children to be treated as married for workers’
compensation rights and benefits
-
No
automatic right to partner’s group
insurance provided by public
retirement system.
-
No
right to opt out of unemployment
insurance as a family business
-
No
right to receive deceased partner’s
unemployment benefits
-
Required
to comply with farm labor contractor
regulations when working only with
partner
-
Subjected
to employment discrimination laws
when hiring partner in family business
-
Employer
can refuse to hire or discharge
employee because it employs or has
employed partner
-
No
protection through emergency court
orders in case of divorce
-
No
tax exemption for dividing property
upon divorce
-
No
dividing retirement plans upon divorce
-
No
automatic right to receive partner’s
judicial retirement pension
-
No
automatic right to make retirement
selection from deceased partner’s
public employee retirement benefit
-
No
automatic right to partner’s
pre-Medicare insurance benefit
provided by public retirement system
-
No
automatic right to partner’s
Medicare supplemental insurance paid
for by public retirement system
-
No
automatic right to approve partner’s
public employee retirement choices
-
No
automatic right to special
pre-retirement public employee
retirement benefit after death of
partner who was a judge
-
No
right for partner of disabled or
killed public safety officer to Public
Safety Memorial Fund benefits
-
No
automatic right to receive partner’s
public employment benefits
-
No
right to retired partner’s health
insurance offered by local government
employers
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