A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples - ShopQueer.co

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples

Regular price $34.99

⏳ Hurry! Sale ends in {timer}.
 

We’re not making a profit on this sale! If you have the means, please consider contributing to the Rainbow Book Bus at checkout 💕

Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.

Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you 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 children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.
Fortunately, this practical guide is updated with the latest legal information and legislation that will 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
. practical and legal aspects of having and raising children
. marriage laws for all 50 states
The updated edition provides the latest information on same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. Plus, create essential legal documents using the step-by-step instructions included.

All forms are now downladable at nolo.com.

About the Author

x

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. Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView

Informative for any unmarried couple. San Francisco Chronicle

The edge of the law ... will be much less fearful for those who have this book. -Los Angeles Times

Provides a legal roadmap for anyone looking for guidance towards protecting his or her family. Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign

Publisher: NOLO
Pub date:
Length:
440 pages
Format: Paperback