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Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A

Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, A

 eBook, Published by NOLO   (30 April 2012)

£21.69

Book description

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 these important subjects, and many more:

  • 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

    This edition of A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Coupless is updated to provide the latest information on same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships in the U. S., Canada and around the world, as well as all the recent developments in same-sex partnership law. Plus, create essential legal documents using the step-by-step instructions included with downloadable forms. " Informative for any unmarried couple. " Denis Clifford, a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of The Law Review, is a lawyer who specializes in estate planning. He is the author of many Nolo titles including Quick and Legal Will Book, Nolo's Simple Will Book and Make Your Own Living Trust and co-author of Plan Your Estate and A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples. He has been interviewed by such major media as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Money Magazine. Frederick Hertz is a practicing attorney-mediator and the author of Legal Affairs: Essential Advice for Same-Sex Couples (Owl Books) and co-author of Nolo's Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples and A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples. He lives and works in Oakland, California. Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area for more than 15 years. She is the author of Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce and the editor of many Nolo titles including Divorce Without Court: A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce and the bestselling Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees Boundaries & Noise. 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.
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