Regardless of your age, race, gender, or sexual orientation properly protecting your future and your loved ones requires a plan. Without estate planning executed by you, state law will fill in the gaps with default choices for your decision makers and recipients of your money and property. For some members of the LGBT community, both married […]
Happy Pride Month everyone! Last year this blog sought to provide helpful information for members of the transgender and gender non-conforming members of the LGBT+ community change their legal names and pronouns. Since last year’s post there have been some updates to the ongoing legal battle over gender affirming care for minors in Texas. The constitutionality […]
Everyone needs estate planning. Regardless of your age, race, gender, or sexual orientation, properly protecting your future and your loved ones requires a plan. For LGBTQ couples, there are a few things you should consider when thinking about crafting an estate plan. Each couple is unique, and it is our goal to ensure that your personal […]
The Obergefell decision of 2015, which legalized gay marriage in all 50 states including Texas, greatly impacted estate planning for same-sex couples. Married gay couples are now able to take advantage of the estate planning techniques that had previously only been available to heterosexual married couples. However, despite the change in the law, a smaller percentage […]
In 2015, in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states, bringing marriage equality to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples no matter where they live. As a result, same-sex married couples now have access to all the estate planning tools that […]
