Sexuality, Gender Identity, and the Law

This treatise provides a practical guide to both employment discrimination law and human resource practices as they relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees.

This treatise discusses the legal aspects of marriage, divorce, adoption, custody, parentage, surrogacy, visitation, assisted reproduction, and other family law topics from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. It contains analysis of issues related to post-heterosexual relationship custody and visitation; single party adoption and foster care; treatment of issues associated with assisted reproduction and surrogacy; two-party adoptions and judgments; custody disputes between former same-sex partners in cases in which both partners are legal parents; dissolution and separation issues where only one parent is a legal parent; marriage and other relationship protections; and transsexual marriage and parentage rights.

Sexual Orientation and the Law is an extensive guide to representing any client involved in a nontraditional relationship, providing advice on how to handle the unique legal problems affecting your client. It contains extensive coverage of the full range of legal issues facing lesbian and gay clients, offering both discussion of the relevant laws and legal theories as well as sample agreements, practice pointers, and forms. Topics covered include: family law and raising children; Co-habitation and same-sex marriage; federal taxes; death, incapacity, and illness; employment; state initiatives; military and veterans; immigration; representing transexual clients; consumer goods, services, and accommodations; First Amendment; juveniles; criminal defense; criminal justice; representing clients with AIDS; HIV testing; employment and AIDS; and insurance and AIDS.