Same Sex Couples
We understand that same sex couples often face some very complex legal issues and you need specialists who are used to dealing with these unique legal problems. From helping you prepare your wills or to help you dissolve your civil partnership, or handle discrimination in the work place to tax advice, we work closely with you to help you understand and make the decisions that are right for your circumstances.
We make it our way of life too and are Citypink's resident legal expert and have worked with many other LGBT groups providing legal information and assistance to their members.
Our reputation means that we are widely quoted in the gay and national press on same sex legal issues.
We can help you with
- Gay and lesbian parenting (including leading expertise in donor conception and surrogacy)
- Co-parenting
- Advice after relationship breakdowns, including cohabitant disputes and civil partnership dissolutions
- Pre-partnership agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
- Tax planning advice, particularly inheritance tax, capital gains tax and advice for foreign domiciliaries
- Claims against estates from same sex partners
- Specialist wills
- Employment advice including discrimination in the work place and maternity and paternity leave rights