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Family Fairness: Returning Rights to Same-Sex Couples
http://familyfairness.org/blog/
Family Fairness is a legal blog helping gay and lesbian families receive rights and recognition regardless of the state you live in. It offers aid regarding family planning, wills and trusts, estate planning, adoption, civil unions, same-sex marriage, and other legal documentation needed by LGBT families.
- Added on: Mar 23rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Family Fairness
- Listed in: Law & Legal Gay and Lesbian
- Tags: lesbian gay lgbt gay marriage civil union gay family
Recent Posts
What Will the Affordable Health Care for America Act do for LGBT Families?
The House of Representatives yesterday passed the health reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, by a vote of 220-215. The Wall Street Journal reports the several key provisions of the bill including capping health insurance costs fo...
This Week in Gay News Roundup: 11/1 - 11/6
The week that brought us the one year anniversary of California's Proposition 8 and the passage of Maine's Proposition 1 was certainly not a celebratory one. Here is what happened this week in LGBT law in case you missed it. For for up-to-the-minute ...
The Evils of DOMA: COBRA and Health Care
I spoke yesterday about the importance of the word "marriage" and why it was impossible to fight for the rights without also fighting for the word. Many current federal programs and benefits only recognize married partners. While we do not yet know h...
California Proposition 8 Anniversary: Revisiting the (Bad) Arguments
The following is an editorial: In the last year, we had some victories: marriage equality came to Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire, recognition came to Washington D.C., and Domestic Partnerships came to Nevada and were expanded in Washington. And the...
Brazilian Man Denied Ability to Live with US Partner
Family Fairness discussed in March how same-sex couples were hurt by anti-gay immigration policies. Because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a gay or lesbian United States citizen is unable to sponsor his or her partner for residency. Hope was ...
Married on the Internet - Even if your state doesn’t allow it
Professors Mae Kuykendall and Adam Candeub of the Michigan State University College of Law collaborate on a legislative initiative called the E-Marriage Project. Their latest article, E-Marriage: Breaking the Marriage Monopoly, argues that "couples c...
