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All five US states that permit same-sex civil unions (Illinois, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island and Hawaii) recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages as civil unions. So, when a same-sex married couple moves to a state that only permits civil unions, they maintain the same rights (since civil unions in those five states have rights equivalent to marriage), but their marriage is now legally referred to as a "civil union."

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