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  • Florida Court Recognizes Parental Rights for Same-Sex Partner

    Even laws that seem gender neutral can be difficult to apply in nontraditional situations. When this occurs, it often falls to the courts to make these laws work. One example is the way many courts had to adapt traditional notions of “parentage” to apply to children conceived by in vitro fertilization or other advanced methods. These scientific advances have complicated a question that is ...
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  • Florida Divorce After Supreme Court Ruling on DOMA

    It has never been easier for same-sex couples to marry than it is today, but what about divorce? Oddly, it may not be as easy to untie the knot as it is to tie it. A recent Supreme Court decision, United States v. Windsor, held that the federal Defense of Marriage Act’s (DOMA) definition of marriage as “a union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” was unconstitutional. This decision ...
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