Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site osiris.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplvax!osiris!jcp From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: What are our legal rights? Message-ID: <524@osiris.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 21:01:17 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.524 Posted: Fri Sep 13 21:01:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 06:47:39 EDT References: <408@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 25 > > It is certainly important to know your legal rights, and I encourage people > to learn more about them, and at least try to prevent things like this from > happening to them and s'others by drawing up wills and powers of attorney. > If Sharon and Karen hadn't at least done that, Karen would have absolutely > no chance of even getting into court. A good book, written by two gay > lawyers (sorry, don't remember their names) is called _Legal Contracts for > Gay and Lesbian Couples_. It's about $12.95 in paperback, and has lots of > good information and samples of contracts for most situations. > Please, if you live with or share property with another person, especially of the same sex, MAKE A WILL ! If anything happens to you or your partner, the parents can and often do put you right out into the cold, taking away even the things that are yours, including your pets. Be sure that BOTH your names go on the leases and such, and be sure that there is clear legal documentation of your intentions to bequeath shared property, etc. Nothing is more tragic than to see a person already harrowed by the loss of a lover, to have everything they shared in life taken away by vindictive family members who may not even have spoken to their child in years. -- jcpatilla "At night, the ice weasels come." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com