A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay CouplesA Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples

Provides legal information to help same-sex couples exercise their rights and make sound decisions together. Original. Charts. Tables. Graphs. Forms.
Provides legal information to help same-sex couples exercise their rights and make sound decisions together.
Hertz and Doskow present readers with the eighteenth edition of a comprehensive guide to maneuvering the law surrounding same-sex partnerships and marriage from state to state throughout the United States. The authors cover the defining of family; money, insurance, name changes, and immigration issues; renting a home together; parenting matters; medical and financial matters; estate planning and many other related subjects. Frederick Hertz is a practicing attorney in California. Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator in California. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book is for LGBT couples who want to know how to legally define and protect their relationships, especially those who are not quite ready to get married, or who are in a civil union or domestic partnership.
Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planning

Gay and lesbian couples have gained a lot of legal ground in recent years. Although same-sex marriage is now legal across the U.S.,laws governing civil unions and domestic partnerships vary from state to state.

So it’s still important to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law—and A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples can help.

This plain-English guide shows you how to:

• structure your relationship with a contract
• jointly buy a house or other property
• make practical decisions about living together, marrying, or registering as legal partners
• make a will or living trust
• make medical decisions for each other if needed
• have and raise children through adoption, donors, surrogacy, or foster parenting, and
• deal with the end of a relationship.
  

The 18th edition is completely revised to provide the latest on same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships, and civil unions, and new information regarding parentage laws.

All forms are now downloadable via a special link at nolo.com.