Table of Contents
Your LGBT Family Companion
How We See Our Relationships
How This Book Can Help
Using the Forms in This Book
1. Defining Family: Basics of Marriage, Domestic Partnership, and More
Defining Family
Domestic Partnership
Employee Benefits for Domestic Partners
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
2. Marriage and Marriage-Like Relationships
Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts
California's Domestic Partnership Law
The Vermont Civil Union Law
The New Jersey Civil Union Law
The Connecticut Civil Union Law
Relationship Recognition in Hawaii: Reciprocal Beneficiaries
Domestic Partnership in Maine
Hot Off the Presses: Relationships in New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington
Is Marriage (or Its Equivalent) Right for You?
3. Money, Insurance, Name Changes, and Immigration Issues
Cash and Credit
Insurance
Name Changes
Foreign Lovers: Visits and Immigration
4. Renting a Home Together
If a Landlord Discriminates Against You
Sharing a Rental
Sharing One Partner's Rented Home
Renter's Insurance
Moving On
Public Benefits and Living Together
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
6. Medical and Financial Matters: Delegating Authority
Health Care Decisions
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Burial and Body Disposition
Estate Planning Note
Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
7. Looking Ahead: Estate Planning
Death and Living Together Contracts
Wills
Estate Planning Beyond a Will
8. Living Together Contracts for Lesbian and Gay Couples
Living Together Contracts Are Legal
When You Need a Living Together Contract
What to Include in a Living Together Contract
Sample Living Together Contracts
Modifying Your Agreement
Beware the Tax Man!
9. Buying a Home Together (and Other Real Estate Ventures)
Finding a House
How Much House Can You Afford?
Proceeding With Your Purchase
Taking Title to Your New Home
Contracts for Home Purchase and Ownership
10. Going Separate Ways: Issues at the End of a Relationship
Breaking Up: An Overview
The Separation Process: What to Do
Getting to Yes: How to Work Toward Resolution
Ideas for Solving Some Common Problems
Breaking Up When There's No Legal Relationship
Dissolving a Gay Marriage
Dissolving a Straight Marriage
Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships
11. Help Beyond the Book
Hiring a Lawyer
Doing Your Own Legal Research
Legal Organizations
Appendix: How to Use the Forms CD-ROM
Installing the Form Files Onto Your Computer
Using the Word Processing Files to Create Documents
List of Forms Included on the Forms CD-ROM
Renting Together Agreement
Moving-In Agreement
Agreement to Jointly Raise Our Child
Parenting Agreement
Nomination of Guardian for a Minor
Donor Insemination Agreement
Contract Regarding Child Support and Custody
Temporary Guardianship Agreement
Authorization to Consent to Medical, Surgical, or Dental Examination or Treatment of a Minor
Will
Codicil
Mediation-Arbitration Clause #1
Mediation-Arbitration Clause #2
Agreement to Keep Income and Accumulations Separate
Agreement to Combine Income and Accumulations
Agreement for Joint Outright Purchase
Agreement Regarding Jointly Owned Item Purchased on Credit in One Partner's Name
Contract for Long-Term Couples
Living Together Agreement -- Keeping Things Separate
Living Together Agreement -- Sharing Most Property
Agreement for Sharing Household Expenses
Joint Project Agreement #2
Agreement Allowing Alternating Time Off
Agreement for Educational Support
Agreement for Compensating a Homemaker
Contract for Equal Ownership of Real Property
Contract for Ownership of Real Property and Payments Split Unequally
Promissory Note for Down Payment Money
Contract When One Owner Does Not Live on the Premises #1
Contract When One Owner Does Not Live on the Premises #2
Contract for Sale of a Share of House
Postseparation Agreement Regarding Housing
Agreement Regarding Mediation and Arbitration
Settlement Agreement
Postseparation Parenting Agreement
Index
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