Friday, December 16, 2016

Williams Institute marks a very personal 40th anniversary

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I want to express my deep thanks to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School for honoring the 40th anniversary of a law review article that...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

It's a trifecta! Massachusetts find nonbio mom to be full legal parent

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After wins in New York and Maryland , Massachusetts becomes the third state in three months to recognize the reality of life for children ...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Beyond Marriage Ten Years Later

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The Beyond Marriage statement from  2006 has a new home on the web here .  We'll be talking about it at the CLAGS After Marriage confere...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Alison D. overruled! Children of same-sex couples in New York now have TWO parents

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When I wrote about the New York Court of Appeals 2010 ruling in Debra H. , I observed that the Court had breathed new life into the long-di...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Archbishop of Canterbury is not the biological child of his mother's deceased husband...and why that matters to same-sex couples

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So it seems the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was born nine months after his mother's marriage, was actually the biological child of a d...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Maryland high court hears important oral argument -- and the other side offers no law

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The Maryland Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in Conover v. Conover (oral argument here ).  By now the facts are not extraordinary...
Friday, November 7, 2014

It's the children, stupid! ...Or why Ryanne, Nolan, and Jacob still don't have two legal parents

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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the bans on same-sex marriage in four states: Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  I hop...