Marriage Equality Legislation
With Same- Sex Marriage Comes Same- Sex Divorce
While most Americans are still celebrating last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision which legalized gay marriage in all 50 states, others are already beginning to question what this means for potential same- sex divorce. The Huffington Post recently featured a piece that detailed the journey of two women that were legally married in Massachusetts in…
Read MoreEveryone Deserves the Right to Divorce, Kentucky Agrees
A Jefferson Family Court judge granted Kentucky’s first same-sex divorce. Judge Joseph O’Reilly permitted the divorce of two Louisville women who were legally married in Massachusetts. While Judge O’Reilly issued this decision on December 29th, 2014, he waited until now to publicize the decision “so that it would become and couldn’t be challenged.” However,…
Read MoreNY Courts Extend More Parental Rights to Same-Sex Partners
The New York Supreme Court recently had to decide an issue of child custody and visitation in a same-sex marriage. In Wendy G-M v. Erin G-M, during their marriage, one spouse underwent artificial insemination, became pregnant and gave birth to a child. The question for the court in this case is whether the other spouse, the…
Read MoreMarriage Equality Legislation May Protect Your Equal Rights, But Does It Protect Your Assets?
On July 24th, 2011, the first day that New York’s same-sex marriage law goes into effect, each of the City Clerk’s five borough offices will conduct a public lottery, allowing a total of 764 same-sex couples to wed on this historic day. The necessity of the lottery is due to the high demand for services…
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