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Eligible Spouses and Domestic Partners
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Your legally married spouse is eligible to apply for coverage, to the extent permissible by state insurance regulations.
Your approved same gender or opposite gender domestic partner, to the extent permissible by state insurance regulations is also eligible to apply for coverage.
To obtain spousal or domestic partner coverage, you will need to complete an Affidavit of Eligible Family Membership via MMC Benefits Online declaring that:
Spouse / Domestic Partner
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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
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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
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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:
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be at least 18 years old
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not be legally married, under federal law, to each other or anyone else or part of another domestic partnership during the previous 12 months
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currently be in an exclusive, committed relationship with each other that has existed for at least 12 months and is intended to be permanent
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not be Medicare eligible
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currently reside together, and have resided together for at least the previous 12 months, and intend to do so permanently, and
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have agreed to share responsibility for each other's common welfare and basic financial obligations
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not related by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit marriage under applicable state law.
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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.
Domestic partner coverage can be added via MMC Benefits Online.
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