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Summary
Protect your rights -- protect your relationship!
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.
This practical, plain-English guide shows lesbian and gay couples how to:
- make practical decisions about living together
- obtain domestic partner benefits
- make medical decisions for each other when needed
- take care of each other's finances when one partner is incapacitated
- leave property to each other
- have and raise children through adoption, donor insemination, surrogacy or foster parenting
The 14th edition 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. It also includes a CD-ROM that helps you create essential legal documents.
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Press Reviews
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"A good primer for couples wanting basic legal advice on domestic partnerships, parenting, making financial and medical decisions, buying a home together, and estate planning."
Curve
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"A guide that lovers will do well to embrace. Buy this book."
Bay Area Reporter
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"The edge of the law… will be much less fearful for those who have this book."
Los Angeles Times
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"Most legal guidebooks -- including those written for lawyers -- ignore lesbian and gay couples. For almost 20 years, this has been the outstanding exception, and it remains the standard for lesbians and gay men who want solid, basic answers."
Matt Coles, Director,
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, ACLU
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"This first-rate guide demystifies the legal process and provides an invaluable resource for gay and lesbian people engaged in the process of family creation."
Attorney Urvashi Vaid,
Director of the Policy Institute of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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"Informative for any unmarried couple."
San Francisco Chronicle
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"This book provides a legal roadmap for anyone looking for guidance towards protecting his or her family. I commend its authors for making available this important information."
Elizabeth Birch,
Executive Director,
Human Rights Campaign
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"Excellent, comprehensive reference."
Modern Maturity
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