In the past several months we have written a couple of times about the world of anonymous parentage and the conflict it has unintentionally ignited. In October we published “23
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We recently wrote about the matter of searching one’s genetic past and some of the unusual history which that kind of testing can reveal. The Wall Street Journal’s January 3
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Judge Responsible for First Federal Decision Attacking Defense of Marriage Act Dies
Though the point of this blog is to talk about recent developments in the area of family law, we would be bereft if we didn’t take a moment to recognize
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Same Sex Common Law Marriage Established by Superior Court
Since the striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act by the United States Supreme Court, many state courts have been trying to fill in the legal vacuum created between
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Superior Court: Civil Unions Can Be Dissolved in Family Courts
In what some may construe as an effort by the Pennsylvania Superior Court to salvage something positive out of 2016, an Opinion was issued today which effectively opens Pennsylvania’s family
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Same-Sex Common Law Marriage Declared in Bucks County Case
Up until about two years ago, a good portion of questions which came through this blog were questions about common-law marriage. Usually, it was someone asking whether or not they
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Obergefell Fallout
Last month brought us the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that same sex marriages need to be recognized. While this is a milestone in its own right, the devil
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A Different Take on Obergefell
I just finished reading my partner Aaron Weems’ analysis on last week’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that gay marriage is an institution meriting the respect of all fifty
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Supreme Court: Same-Sex Marriage is Legal Everywhere
When the Supreme Court rendered their 5-4 ruling on June 26, 2015 in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state
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LEGAL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UNDERCUTS OLD EFFORTS AT SAME-SEX LEGAL PROTECTION
One of the consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is that all of the old methods for getting around a same-sex marriage ban or lack of recognition
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