Record details

• ISBN: 1413320201
• ISBN: 9781413320206
• Physical Description: print
  441 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Edition: 17th edition.
• Publisher: [Berkeley, California] : Nolo, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Your LGBT family companion : How we see our relationships -- How this book can help -- Using the forms in this book -- ch. 1. Defining family: basics of marriage, domestic partnership, and more : Defining family -- Domestic partnership -- Employee benefits for domestic partners -- Other benefits -- Marriage and marriage-like relationships in the United States: an overview -- Can you get married? -- Creating marriage-like relationships by contract -- Ending a relationship -- Keeping up with legal changes -- ch. 2. Marriage and marriage equivalent relationships : Same-sex marriage in the marriage equality states -- Marriage equivalent: California's domestic partnership law -- Other marriage equivalent laws -- Pre- and postpartnership agreements -- Marriage lite: relationship recognition in Wisconsin and Colorado -- Is marriage (or its equivalent) right for you? -- ch. 3. Money, insurance, name changes, and immigration issues : Cash and credit -- Insurance ; Name changes -- Foreign lovers: visits and immigration -- ch. 4. Renting a home together : If a landlord discriminates against you -- Sharing a rental -- Sharing one partner's rental home -- Renter's insurance -- Moving on -- Public benefits and living together -- ch. 5. I'm mom, she's mommy (or I'm daddy, he's papa) : Legal parents and the second-parent trap -- Having a child -- Adopting a child -- Foster parenting -- Becoming a guardian -- Agreements with teenagers.

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