Creating and Maintaining a Domestic Partner Benefits Policy: New Laws and Recent Trends

Training Provided by Lorman Education Services Creating a Domestic Partner Benefits Policy - Many employers offer benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. However, employers frequently struggle with various legal and administrative questions such as what benefits to offer, what type proof of domestic partnership should be requested, how to tax the benefits and if they are required to or prohibited from offering certain benefits. This teleconference will help you administer your domestic partner benefit programs in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. In addition, this teleconference will explain the impact of same-sex marriage and civil unions on employee benefit plans, with a focus on action steps you can take to ensure that your benefit plans and policies address these new legal relationship forms.

Creating and Maintaining a Domestic Partner Benefits Policy: New Laws and Recent Trends I. Domestic Partner Benefits
A. History and Statistics
B. Latest Trends
C. Why Employers Do/Do Not Offer Domestic Partner Benefits
D. Administrative, Legal and Tax Issues
E. Which Benefits to Offer
II. State and Local Ordinances Mandating Domestic Partner Benefits
A. ERISA Preemption
B. Court Cases
III. The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions
A. Federal Defense of Marriage Act
B. State Defense of Marriage Acts and Constitutional Amendments
C. Taxation Issues

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