LGBT Legal Needs
The attorneys at Luxenberg & Johnson, PC are experts in cases that affect people in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community, including partner agreements, adoptions, property acquisition and distribution, separation, child custody, visitation rights, and other cases where sensitivity and experience with LGBT issues are absolutely required.
Even in the case of civil unions and domestic partnerships, individuals need legal documents to protect themselves and their partners — powers of attorney, healthcare directives, wills, living wills, and separation agreements. We are ready to help with every legal need of our LGBT families.
LGBT LEGAL VICTORIES
We offer legal expertise, extensive experience, dedication, and creative and skillful problem solving to all of our clients. In many areas of law, the clients’ sexual orientation is largely irrelevant, but when unequal treatment and homophobia arise, we are ready. Such instances may include:
- Discrimination and unequal access to justice
- Prejudice against LGBT adoption
- Issues arising from coming out
- Assistance with domestic violence issues
- Exclusion from divorce laws — complicating the division of joint property
At Luxenberg & Johnson, PC, we have been successful in:
- Winning contested adoption cases for gay and lesbian adopting parents;
- Achieving access to the courts for a non-biological lesbian mother seeking visitation prevented by the biological lesbian mother; and
- Requiring babies’ birth certificates to read “mother unknown” where a gay father’s sperm fertilized an egg from an unknown donor that was carried to term by a surrogate with no genetic links to the child.
