Friday, June 25, 2010

IRS Recognizes Same-Sex Couples For the First Time

The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that same-sex couples must be treated the same as heterosexual couples under a feature of California tax law.

Since Washington and Nevada are also community property states with domestic partnership laws on the books, it's very likely that this could impact us here in Washington state as well.

Monday, June 14, 2010

In re Parentage of M.F. - DECIDED

The Supreme Court has decided that step parents don't get to be de facto parents under the circumstances of the M.F. case because there is no statutory void as in L.B. They stopped just short of saying that children can't have more than two parents.

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