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2014 has been a busy year for the office. We have handled everything from continuing to litigate our client’s rights to be married to whom the choose, be it someone of the same gender or another gender, marriages, divorces, adoptions, terminations of parental rights, child support and more. Those are just the family law issues. … Continue reading Good-bye 2014

As a disclaimer, Joe is one of the attorneys on the Bourke v Beshear and Love v Beshear cases and this is a link to his blog. http://www.joedunmanlaw.com/blog/2014/12/9/same-sex-marriage-kentucky-governor-supports-supreme-court-review

Kentucky supports same-sex marriage review (UPDATED)   Lyle Denniston Reporter Posted Tue, December 9th, 2014 6:17 pm Email Lyle Bio & Post Archive » Kentucky supports same-sex marriage review (UPDATED) UPDATED Wednesday 2:54 p.m. The Supreme Court has not yet scheduled any of the new same-sex marriage cases for consideration at the January 9 Conference, according … Continue reading The Scotus Blog

On Monday, December 8, 2014, the Governor of Kentucky joined the same-sex couples in Love v Beshear and Bourke v Beshear in asking the United States Supreme Court to hear these cases and make a final determination for Kentucky.  http://www.scribd.com/doc/249672306/14-574-Kentucky-Response-Brief#force_seo  As of today, the couples have asked that same-sex marriages from outside of Kentucky be recognized in Kentucky and that same-sex … Continue reading Beshear asks the Supreme Court to hear the case

In the first part of the interview: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/2014/12/exclusive-the-roevwadeofgaymarriagepartone.html Greg and Michael’s son talks about his view of his “awesome” dads. In the second part of the interview: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/2014/12/exclusive-the-roevwadeofgaymarriageparttwo.htm You can hear from one of the attorneys on the case, Shannon Fauver, along with more background of the story. You can also listen to the other … Continue reading The Roe v Wade of same-sex mariage

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The cert petition for the Bourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear cases have been filed with the Supreme Court. All four states in the 6th Circuit have asked the Supreme Court to hear the cases which the 6th Circuit ruled on November 6, 2014.Prior to that ruling, the 6th Circuit had heard arguments from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee about whether or not those … Continue reading On our way to the Supreme Court?

Last week the Judges in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Cincinnati, overruled Judge Heyburn’s rulings in Bourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear. The Bourke case was about the state treating all married couple whom where married in other jurisdictions the same rights, regardless of whether they were same-sex married couples or opposite-sex married couples. The Love … Continue reading What comes after the the 6th Circuit overturns the case