We filed for our second Domestic Partnership today. The first one was filed 4 years ago in NYC, but now that neither of us are working for the city any more, we're not sure how valid it is. Westchester allows us to file an Agreement of Domestic Partnership, so we figured it's better safe than sorry; maybe the damn thing will come in useful some day for something. I figure it's kind of like entering a sweepstakes: maybe you'll get something out of it, but you're pretty sure you won't.
Lady M and I had intended to get the Agreement of Domestic Partnership notarized on Monday, but we couldn't find a notary, so she's been carrying the paper around in her bag since then. City Hall is right across the from library here, so when we pulled over in order to return my slightly overdue library books, we decided to jet into City Hall and just ask the City Clerk to notarize our paper. The Bangles's Eternal Flame blared in the background; we furnished proof that we lived in the county and that we were over 18, we paid 2 dollars, signed on the line and left. Almost as romantic as the first time in the Bronx County Courthouse, but lacking the emergency run to a sketchy check-cashing place for a money order.
Now we just need to send it to the City Clerk of White Plains with a 36 dollar check (this brings our "getting a domestic partnership" total to $79. A NY marriage license costs $40. Almost the price of 2 marriages later... we have nothing. Wouldn't it be awesome if straight, married couples had to re-marry every time they changed counties or states?
