How are same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, and civil unions treated when it comes to divorce?

When you have a same-sex marriage, it’s a marriage, so you go through the same process as heterosexual married couples who are divorcing. Domestic partnerships and civil unions have their own subset of requirements to secure that title as well as mandate when you are trying to dissolve that title, so those two designations, domestic partnership and civil union will have their own sub-categories that are not necessarily going to be in alignment with a divorce process.

Abigale M. Stolfe is a partner at Stolfe Zeigler, a boutique family law firm that obtains favorable outcomes for high-net-worth, complex, and litigious cases.