Legal News

Same-Sex Partner Granted Visitation (Minnesota)
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a decision today granting visitation to a same-sex partner who had not adopted her former partner's children. Marilyn Johnson and Nancy SooHoo, a Minneapolis couple, broke up after 22 years together...

"Vt. high court upholds ex-partner's visitation rights"
"Vt. high court upholds ex-partner's visitation rights": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A woman involved in a high-profile custody dispute welcomed a Vermont Supreme Court ruling [Friday] upholding her visitation rights to a child her former lesbian partner had when they were together...

EU top court upholds pension rights for same-sex partners
[JURIST] The European Court of Justice [official website] Tuesday ruled [judgment] that a person in a same-sex partnership has the right to collect their partner's pension benefits after that partner's death...

LG fights negligence case involving former partner's wife
LG, the law firm, was accused of negligence in the High Court today in the latest twist of an ongoing saga involving a former partner who stole more than £6 million of clients' money.

Spinster Sisters Claim UK Gay Partner Law Discriminates Against Them
This blog has a post tag category for “Sisters In Other Nations” but usually it isn’t meant quite so literally. Via FemmeNoir: Two elderly sisters who live together say they could lose their family home because they are victims of discrimination under Britain’s civil partner law and they’ve taken their case to European Court of Human [...

Specific Advantages to Having a Buy Sell Agreement for Your Michigan Business
In my last post, I discussed the basics of buy sell agreements. In this post, I will explain some of the specific advantages to having a buy sell agreement between the owners of a closely held Michigan business...

Sharon Collins
found guilty of conspiring to kill her partner