Legal & Financial-Related Blog Posts

So I don't know where I have been or how I have not discovered this until today?? MA now allows out-of-state residents to get married??

The American Fertility Association's Family Matters NY at Steiner Studios

The American Fertility Association

New York Family Matters: Patient Education Conference, Oct. 8th, Steiner Studios in Brooklyn Navy Yard

Every time I tell this story it just makes me sick. I have done nothing wrong and yet I can not get any justice.

See in 1986 I was sent to live with my father in TN because my mom was an alcoholic and I just didn't handle it well. Not long after moving in with my father we had a terrible disagreement and I found my self in a residential treatment facility.

My father stopped visiting a few months after dropping me off at this facility and not long after that I ran away in an attempt to get back to my mom and brother in Indiana.

Well only a few days until we board our airplane at 1 in the morning to take a red eye flight to MN to visit with my parter's family over the 4th of July. I am really excited for a vacation, but also always somewhat trepidacious (spelling??). Her family does not accept our relationship and has a very awkward feeling around me. They love the kids and they are glad we visit, but I am just an outsider looking in who never really fits in. I always go on these trips with the perspective that it's for my partner, for our kids, for the family, etc...and I enjoy seeing the midwest.

My partner and I lives in Lawrenceville Georgia and are expecting our first baby (we're 12 weeks). We have no clue where we should start the process for 2nd parent adoption. If anyone have any information on this process please let us know. Any information on this subject will be greatly appreciated.

Ok, so not really... But we pretty well should be, we did a general budget and found out that we have waaaayyy more money than it feels like... hundereds more...
And so now, we will begin to live by the budget!!! And then, we shall have tons of money in savings and be able to get a new vehicle so that the 17 year old van can retire!

Has anyone here filed a petition for name change so that your last name matches your partner? I am filling out the form, and I am struggling with the answer to "reason for request". Any help?

Children born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to lesbian mothers will have the same rights as those of heterosexual couples, under law changes announced by the NSW government.

Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said he had accepted NSW Law Reform recommendations extending "parental presumption" provisions to cover gay mums.

It was estimated 20 per cent of the state's female same-sex couples had children, Mr Hatzistergos said.

The change affects those born through IVF or artificial fertilisation only, by granting parenting rights and obligations to the non-biological mother.

My partner and I are starting the process of haveing our first child. We are doing a home insemination with a unknown donor sperm from a bank. She is going to carry the first baby and we are concerned about my name being on the birth certificate. We live in central FL. We understand that FL will not allow us to do a second parent adoption, so what are some other options? We are willing to have the baby in a different state or do whatever we have to, to insure we both are on the birth certificate. PLEASE HELP!!!

I am the proud step mom of a beautiful 8 year old boy. My partners ex has recently married a very controlling man that is determined to "control" all aspects of the ex and my step son. He "controls" when how and where we see him, he has even started sending us Rules that must be followed in OUR home when we have my step son. My wife and her ex (shes the biological mom) raised this little boy for 8 years, the last 2 have been in a co parenting setting , since the arrival of the new husband EVERYTHING has changed..

So I'm an NYU student (graduating in May) studying journalism and French. I'm researching and reporting my final story for journalism on the Boy Scouts of America, who, as you may know, have a reputation for being anti-gay in one form or another. They do not allow gays or atheists to be leaders in their troops -- usually. I know, however, that this is not ALWAYS the case.

We are in need of some legal advice. Kansas does not allow two men to adopt a single child. When we decided to adopt, after long discussions, it was decided that I would adopt the first child and my partner (Brian) would adopt the second child.