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Bucks County PA enters Same Sex Marriage and Common Law Era

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 30, 2015

The Supreme Court’s Same Sex marriage ruling in June has had its first impact on the interpretation of common law marriage in Bucks County, PA jurisprudence. Bucks County Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. issued a ruling reported in the Courier Times July 30 allowing that two women who weren’t legally married but lived as spouses for 12…

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Does Same Sex Marriage mean Previous Legal Arrangements are Void?

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 6, 2015

For several decades at least, same sex couples have sought ways to legalize shared assets, custody and survivor benefits. This has taken the form of a multitude of legal arrangements whose status, if a couple chooses to become legally married, may be in doubt. The simple answer is: nobody yet knows whether the new law…

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Marriage Equality Questions in Family Law

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 2, 2015

Flags have been getting a lot of attention recently. There is the American flag, in anticipation of the Fourth of July, and the Confederate flag, which has again become a topic of public debate; yet none have received quite as much attention as the rainbow flag, which proudly hung from homes and businesses across America…

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