Contents:
- WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
- SHOULD GAYS GET A PRENUP BEFORE MARRIAGE?
- GAY/SAME-SEX PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS
- STAT THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE LAWS
WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
“In the gay muny there is a lot of socializg among people wh large discrepanci both e and fay wealth, ” said Jooske Stil, a marriage and fay therapist Oakland. Before the 2015 lg of Obergefell v Hodg, which legalized gay marriage natnwi, LGBT prenuptials were ls valid some stat than others.
SHOULD GAYS GET A PRENUP BEFORE MARRIAGE?
For example, Indiana was a state that refed to regnize LGBT marriag if even a uple was married a state where gay marriage was legal. This is due part to the fact that gay marriage was not legal natn-wi until 2015. The 2015 lg of Obergefell v Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, before this, some stat viewed LGBTQ+ prenups as valid.
One such state was Indiana, who bee they didn’t regnize gay marriage at all, regardls of where the uple was married, refed to regnize their prenups too.
As much as we would like to put a nice, neat check next to the gay marriage rights box, there is still lots of grey area the law.
GAY/SAME-SEX PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS
Many were likely wag for gay marriage to be legalized their state while others may have waed until after “g out” to their iends and fay. A new book, When Your Gay Or Lbian Child Marri: A Gui for Parents, nsirs that qutn.
Merrill, a soclogy profsor at Clark Universy, terviewed parents ag 50 to 80 who had both homosexual and heterosexual married adult children.
STAT THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
One big surprise om her rearch: Parents often have better ntug relatnships wh gay upl. Gay weddgs are not whout their difficulti, particularly for parents wh mixed feelgs about their child's nuptials. "Some parents were embarrassed bee they had not prevly let the extend fay know their child was gay, " Merrill says.
Merrill urg parents to be acceptg, or as one of the moms she terviewed said, "You have set asi your own feelgs about homosexualy om your love for your child.
GAY MARRIAGE LAWS
Frankly, my advice to everyone who has a problem wh two people gettg married, whether 's bee they're gay or any other reason, is to md your own bs. Gay marriage is not different om straight marriage. If a prenup n save a tradnal marriage strs and possibly a uple lns of dollars upon divorce, why n’t a prenup save a gay/same-sex uple the same?
You mt nsult wh a qualified, gay/same-sex iendly attorney orr to properly file a prenuptial agreement.