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In a new decision, the N.H. Supreme Court issued a unanimous, and brief, decision holding that same-sex adultery are sufficient grounds for a fault-based divorce, just like heterosexual adultery. This falls into the category (to me, at least) of “who knew” for two reasons: With legal recognition of same-sex marriage,…

Paternity cases, and determining a child’s parentage in Colorado, are governed by the Uniform Parentage Act. And courts are limited to the text of that statute. In K.L.W., the mother of twin 9-month old babies was not in dispute, but the children had two different presumptive parents under the Uniform…

January 11, 2021 was a big day for common law marriage in Colorado. The first three decisions issued this year by our Supreme Court were all on the issue of common law marriage. This article focuses on the first of those decisions, Hogsett, where the Court significantly revised its 33…

This big common law marriage case (one of three common law marriage decisions issued by the Colorado Supreme Court on January 11, 2021) is another legal victory for the LGBTQ community, in that it found a couple could be found to have been in a same-sex common law marriage even…

I had no idea this would still be an issue. You may recall the baker refusing to do same-sex wedding cakes, and a bigoted county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue licenses to a gay couple (and lost reelection). But judges refusing a gay marriage? As a lawyer, I had thought…

NOTE – On January 11, 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Hogsett, and has replaced the Lucero standard for determining whether there is a common law marriage. See our new blog post for a full discussion of this important case. Can same sex couples have a…