My dear friend Maggie Geddes, employment lawyer extraordinaire, sent me a note this morning about an article she saw in today’s New York Times.  Although I had not previously been aware of the Miller-McKenna case discussed in the article, it fits right into an area of family law in which I have been taking…

I spent most of this past week at a conference on cross-border assisted reproduction, co-sponsored by the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA) and the Assisted Reproductive Technology Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA).  The conference was attended by over 250 attorneys from around the world, including England, Germany, Spain, France, Australia,…

Just a few minutes ago, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that I have worked on for the past two years, alongside the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law.  The bill, SB 274, will allow California courts to protect children who…

In a press release issued today, the IRS has let it be known that all marriages of same-sex couples will be honored by our federal government for tax purposes, as long as the marriages were validly entered into by the law of the place of celebration.  What this means, in practical terms, is that a same-sex…

Hello Dear Readers!

I have not blogged in forever, having been very much occupied with other things — and, in all honestly, I guess I also needed a vacation from blogging.  But since the Windsor and Perry decisions, I have been receiving so many questions that it clearly is time to blog again.  I will…

Not surprisingly, I have received numerous phone and email messages from clients in reaction to the recent CNN story about a gestational surrogate who refused to get an abortion when requested to by the baby’s intended parents and instead delivered a severely disabled infant that she subsequently surrendered for adoption.  Even just a quick internet…