Same Sex Couples

LA specialises in dealing with the unique legal problems facing same sex couples.  We are listed on the Stonewall website as a lesbian, gay and bisexual friendly law firm and have been widely quoted in the gay and national press on same sex legal issues. We offer high quality specialist advice across a range of areas.

LA can help with:

• gay and lesbian parenting (including leading expertise in donor conception and surrogacy)
• high quality tax planning advice, particularly inheritance tax, capital gains tax and advice for foreign domiciliaries
• claims against estates from same sex partners
• advice after relationship breakdowns, including high value and international civil partnership dissolutions
• specialist wills
• pre-partnership agreements

Same Sex Couples and the Law

LA produces a newsletter entitled Same Sex Couples and the Law.  The 2008/09 edition contains articles on:

• Civil partnership: gay marriage in all but name?
• Parental rights and responsibilities
• Why making a will is so important
• Claims against estates
• Making the most of the tax system

Email online.enquiry@LA-law.com to receive a copy by post.

Stonewall Information Sheets

Lester Aldridge has been commissioned by Stonewall to write the following information sheets for their online information bank:

• Gay parenting: the law and how it works
• Gay parenting: donor insemination
• Gay parenting: co-parenting

News articles

• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill passed (October 2008)
• Challenging Conceptions: Legal Parenthood and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2008 - The Review (September 2008)
• Lawyer nominated as Hero of the Year by Stonewall (September 2008)
• Stonewall Awards - Pinknews (August 2008)
• Parenting with heart (13 May 2008)
• Proposed changes to the Human Fertilisation and Embyology Bill
  - Radio 4 Program (12 May 2008)
• Leading fertility lawyer urges MPs to reject the need for a father
  (12 May 2008)
• Pro-life MPs threaten access to IVF - Observer (11 May 2008)
• Birth Rights - Diva (April 2008)
• The last battle for equality? - 3SIXTY (February 2008)
• Leading fertility lawyer welcomes Lords decision (22 January 2008)
• Natalie Gamble is The Times Lawyer of the Week (15 January 2008)
• Need for a father - Natalie Gamble speaks in Houses of Parliament debate (14 January 2008)
• Baby Blues - G3 (January 2008)

• Merry Christmas Baby - G3 (December 2007)
• Buying Property Abroad - reFRESH (December 2007)
• Same sex couples and IVF - Radio 4 Today programme and Radio 2 Jeremy Vine programme (20 November 2007)
• The lawyer who has never met her children's father' - London Evening Standard (13 November 2007)
• Makin' Babies - Fyne Times (November 2007)
• Top fertility clinic and leading law firm to host donor insemination event (20 October 2007)
• Gay marriage around the world - reFRESH (October 2007)
• Assessing civil partnerships - reFRESH (July 2007)
• Navigating the tax system - reFRESH (February 2007)
• Boom in fertility treatment for lesbian couples highlights discrimination   (15 November 2006)
• Choosing the right solicitor (17 October 2006)

• Legal experts warn gay couples to get advice before tying the knot    (18 July 2006)
• Civil partnership and marriage (27 February 2006)

Key People

Natalie Gamble Associate

Louisa Ghevaert Associate