Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planning
Laws affecting LGBT couples have changed dramatically in the last decade–today, same-sex couples can get married in any state in the U.S.. However, for those couples who choose not to get married, it’s essential to take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don’t, you run the risk of being shut out of each other’s lives–and the lives of the children you co-parent–in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.
Fortunately, this practical guide is updated with the latest legal information to help you and your same-sex partner protect and exercise your rights and make sound decisions as a couple.
A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples covers:
making practical decisions about living together
planning for medical emergencies–making medical decisions for one another and taking care of each other’s finances when one partner is incapacitated
domestic partner benefits and how to obtain them
buying property together
providing for each other upon death, and
practical and legal aspects of having and raising children.
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Your LGBT Family Companion
1. Defining Family: Basics of Marriage, Domestic Partnership, and More
2. Money, Insurance, Name Changes, and Immigration Issues
3. Renting a Home Together
4. I’m Mom, She’s Mommy (or I’m Daddy, He’s Papa)
5. Medical and Financial Matters: Delegating Authority
6. Looking Ahead: Estate Planning
7. Living Together Contracts for Lesbian and Gay Couples
8. Buying a Home Together (and Other Real Estate Ventures)
9. Going Separate Ways: Issues at the End of a Relationship
10. Help Beyond the Book
Appendix: Using the Interactive Forms
Index
Despre autor
Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area for more than 22 years. She specializes in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is a graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Nolo’s Essential Guide to Divorce and coauthor of A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples.
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