Deciding that a marriage is over means that you have to learn how to work as a co-parent with your child’s other parent. Trying to find strategies that help to make the situation easier is imperative because how you and your co-parent work together can have an impact...
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Circuit Courts Still Hearing Emergency Order of Protection Cases
It is important to know that if you fall victim to domestic violence that you can act, even during the Covid-19 crisis. The circuit courts are open for emergency hearings. This means that if you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence they have the right...
Getting to know the basics of LGBTQ estate planning
Before the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision, estate planning for LGBTQ couples involved issues quite different from those you might expect to find in AARP’s magazine. On the other hand, well before the June 2015 decision, AARP already did carry an article to...
The importance of second-parent adoption for same-sex couples
For many same-sex couples, the 2015 Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage was the first step in full recognition of their families. In 2016, a federal judge lifted a ban on adoption by same-sex couples in Mississippi. Same-sex couples are changing the...
