Court rules “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” In a landmark decision on June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal workplace laws prohibit employers from basing employment decisions on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identities. The decision […]
What rights and obligations do spouses have to one another upon divorce after the parties have lived separate and apart, though still married, for a significant period of time before seeking a divorce? The New Jersey Appellate Division grappled with these questions in a recent unpublished opinion. In Karen M. […]
On June 26, 2017, the LGBTQ community marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality the law of the land by finding that marriage is a fundamental right for same-sex couples. The United States Supreme Court greeted this anniversary with the release […]
A Family Court judge in South Carolina recently made headlines and history when he ruled that a relationship between two unmarried women, who have held themselves out as a same-sex couple for more than three decades, shall be considered a common-law marriage. This groundbreaking decision permits the state of South […]
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