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A legal guide for lesbian and gay couples

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If you have a college degree, good income, own a home, and prefer a do-it-yourself explanation, this is the book for you. It is written by laywers and describes partnership situations in detail with legal/financial tools to apply. In some cases, it gets down to state by state specifics (Vermont's same-sex law, Hawaii's beneficiary law, etc). It deals with houses & other property, stocks & bank accounts, wills & inheritance, children, prior marriages, and even breaking up.

If you are still 'building your credit history' or want to learn about 'life insurance policies', then buy one of the simpler books. If you are an educated anal-rententive meticulously detail-oriented gay adult, then this is the book for you. You can skip the others.

This guide has been highly resourceful in the lives of my partner and I. There is not a day that goes by that we do not reference it. It is written in a very easy to understand format and contains several templates for "Durable Power of Attorney"s, etc. I highly recommend this book. Anyone interested in emailing me, just remove "no-spam" from my address.

I really enjoy this book and would recommend it to anyone who is in a LGBT relationship. I especially enjoy the CD-ROM that it includes so you can type up your own forms as a way to protect yourself and your partner.

As Same-sex Marriages and Holy Unions are becoming more popular in the US, same-sex couples need a valuable source of information for their journey into the lagal world where lifelong partners are considered "legal strangers" in the eyes of the law. This book IS that source. A priority purchase for any same-sex "married" couple

This guide has been highly resourceful in the lives of my partner and I. There is not a day that goes by that we do not reference it. It is written in a very easy to understand format and contains several templates for "Durable Power of Attorneys", etc. I highly recommend this book. Anyone interested in emailing me.

Hayden Curry, Denis Clifford, & Robin Leonard

A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples

(Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1994--8th edition) over 300 pages

An excellent guide for gay and lesbian couples,

discussing all the special problems they might encounter

--and creative solutions to each.

Major themes discussed: domestic partnership; changing names;

renting together; buying a home together; sharing income and expenses;

insurance; several forms of co-parenting

(adoption, guardianship, foster parents);

durable power of attorney for health care and finances;

estate planning and wills; ending prior heterosexual marriages;

child custody; ending the relationship.

Includes several pages of forms that can be adapted

to formalize decisions about these and other matters.

Highly recommended.

Read the most recent edition, since the laws keep changing.

When same-sex marriage can be legally recognized,

couples with a relationship contract

will have already defined how their relationship operates.

If you would like to discover other helpful books,

search the Internet for the following exact words:

"UNMARRIED COUPLES---RELATIONSHIP CONTRACTS---BEST BOOKS".

James Leonard Park, author of Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract.

Great reference for all of us to stand up for the right to be who we are.