Kessler & Solomiany, LLC Same Sex Marriage Archives

Court decided resolution is never as good as a result agreed to by the people involved. And that can best be accomplished if we act civilly.

I was interviewed today (October 21, 2012) on CNN about the new Federal Court decision declaring section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional (click here to see the interview: http://youtu.be/TErI_O9nQ6E).

…whether a “surrogate” mother is also a legal mother?

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This is a watershed moment. It will affect thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of lives. Perhaps soon there will be no such thing as “gay” marriage and it will return to simply “marriage”, which may be between same sex individuals or different sex individuals. Years ago the debate was “interracial” marriage, but today, when […]

The next panel will cover the status of gay marriage and civil unions in the United States, interaction between federal and state law regarding same sex marriage, the portability of marriage and (un)availability of divorce and rights and remedies not available to gay couples where marriage or civil unions are not recognized.

There will be family law discussed not only indoors, but pool side and at the beach. Isn’t that better than your conference room?

The speakers and program producers have worked very hard to organize and create this exciting program and we hope you will join us.

Our goal, and mine, is to improve the practice of family law and to minimize the negative impact family law can have on families.

But if DOMA is overturned by the new “Respect for Marriage” act, then would Georgia be violating the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution if it did not recognize and enforce a valid “gay divorce”?