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	Life Events

	Adding a Domestic Partner

		About the Life Event

		Impact on Benefits

		Beneficiary Elections

		Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

		Contact

	Child No Longer Eligible for Benefits

	Death of a Child

	Death of a Spouse

	Death of an Employee

	Getting Divorced

	Getting Legally Separated

	Getting Married

	Having a Baby / Adopting a Child

	Spouse Gets a Job

	Spouse Leaves a Job

	Termination of a Domestic Partnership

About the Life Event

Adding a same gender or opposite gender domestic partner to certain benefits coverage is permitted upon employment or during the Annual Enrollment period for coverage effective the following January 1st if you satisfy the plans' criteria, or immediately upon satisfying the plans' criteria if you previously did not qualify. To obtain spousal or domestic partner coverage, you will need to complete an Affidavit of Eligible Family Membership via MMC PeopleLink's MMC Benefits Online declaring:

Spouse / Domestic Partner

You have already received a marriage license from a U.S. state or local authority, or registered your domestic partnership with a U.S. state or local authority; or

Spouse Only

Although not registered with a U.S. state or local authority, your relationship constitutes a marriage under U.S. state or local law (e.g. common law marriage or a marriage outside the U.S. that is honored under U.S. state or local law).

Domestic Partner Only

Although not registered with a U.S. state or local authority, your relationship constitutes an eligible domestic partnership. To establish that your relationship constitutes an eligible domestic partnership you and your domestic partner must:

be at least 18 years old

not be legally married, under federal law, to each other or anyone else or part of another domestic partnership during the previous 12 months

currently be in an exclusive, committed relationship with each other that has existed for at least 12 months and is intended to be permanent

not be Medicare eligible

currently reside together, and have resided together for at least the previous 12 months, and intend to do so permanently, and

have agreed to share responsibility for each other's common welfare and basic financial obligations

not related by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit marriage under applicable state law.

MMC reserves the right to require documentary proof of your domestic partnership at any time, for the purpose of determining benefits eligibility. If requested, you must provide documents verifying either the registration of your domestic partnership with a state or local authority or your cohabitation and/or mutual commitment.

Once your Affidavit of Eligible Family Membership is completed and processed, you may cover the dependent child(ren) of your spouse or domestic partner.