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Multi-State Estate Planning 101: Owning Property in Multiple States
Multi-state estate planning is complex and relies heavily on your state's laws. New Jersey and Pennsylvania laws regarding real estate in other states can lead to common concerns and challenges for high net worth individuals. Careful planning can help create an estate...
The ongoing fight for LGBTQ equality
In a time when equality for the LGBTQ-plus community is a distant dream, a few U.S. lawmakers are pushing legislation that aims to prove America is willing to fight not only for LGBTQ equality but also for LGBTQ lives around the world. The introduction of two new...
Small Steps, Yet Significant Progress in Fight For LGBTQ Community
In a time when equality for the LGBTQ community is a distant dream, a few U.S. lawmakers are pushing legislation that aims to prove America is willing to fight not only for LGBTQ equality but also for LGBTQ lives around the world.
U.S. citizenship held hostage for the children of same-sex marriages
The landmark Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v Hodges granted marriage equality to all couples, regardless of gender, stating that same-sex couples “…ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. …It is so ordered.” But for...
Supreme Court to Tackle LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on one of the most unsettled civil rights questions—are LGBTQ people protected by Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin and sex?
Supreme Court to Answer the Question of Whether LGBTQ People are Protected from Workplace Discrimination
This column was one of the more emotional columns I’ve written for the Philadelphia Gay News. I am writing this sitting in my hotel room at the Dearborn Inn in Michigan, after visiting the Henry Ford Museum of Innovation which houses the historical bus that Rosa Parks...
Conversion therapy: Not a new practice, but hopefully a new discussion
While acceptance of LGBTQ individuals has been growing rapidly in the last decade, there are still subsets of people who abhor any orientation other than heterosexual. Coming out is never an easy process for LGBTQ people, no matter their age. For teens experiencing...
Conversion Therapy—This Harmful Practice Needs to Be Banned
Parents can legally force their LGBTQ children into conversion therapy in all but 14 states, and for those LGBTQ teens living in the other 36 states, conversion therapy is a very real fear.
Non-biological parental rights
When the U.S. Supreme Court passed marriage equality in 2015, LGBTQ citizens and their allies rejoiced. But it did not mean full equality in the eyes of the law. There are still questions surrounding LGBTQ civil rights, particularly around children. These questions...