When federal courts defeated countrywide bans on same-sex marriage, future birth certificates for children of same-sex couples were supposed to include the names of both parents. It also opened up the opportunity for preexisting birth certificates of same-sex couples to retroactively be changed to include both parents’ names. However, North Carolina did not change its birth certificate policy immediately following…
While it is true that the United States Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage has stirred up more controversy than any ruling in recent memory, it could also be bringing about a change that just about anyone can be happy about: financial gain. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has projected that up to $184.7 million…
On June 26th, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, and controversy immediately sprang up around the decision. People from coast to coast were either celebrating it or condemning it and the split has yet to diminish. News stories are coming out of states that are often considered more traditionally conservative about…