Blog Posts from February 2012
Ask the InfoLine: Tax Time, Married Same-Sex Couples & DOMA
It’s tax time, and for married same-sex couples the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) can cause a number of problems.
Ask the InfoLine: LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS Resources for You
GLAD now has a Resource List for each of the six New England states. You can either access the list online (see individual links below) or we can mail you your state’s Resource List in printed form- just contact GLAD’s Legal InfoLine.
Mass. Appeals Court Gets It Right in Same-sex Couple’s Custody Dispute
We love to see headlines like the one atop a story in today’s Boston Globe: Same-sex parents share role, court says The story details a ruling by the Massachusetts Appeals Court which said that state law gives two people equal legal standing when a child conceived by artificial means is born during a marriage, despite the fact that the law specifically refers to a “husband” and a “married woman.”