About Bill Singer > Family Creation
Helping Families:
When an attorney counsels clients considering the creation of a family, that attorney needs to be sensitive to complicated emotions and knowledgeable about the status of the law. With his years of experience, Bill has the ability to guide families through the intricate, delicate process of adoption and the use of assisted reproductive technology to build a family. Bill also helps families with estate and life planning documents such as wills and powers of attorney and the administration of an estate. His years of involvement in these issues inform his ability to serve his clients.
LGBT Issues:
For four decades, Bill has worked to extend the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community through the use of the legal system and the legislative process.
Bill has assisted same-sex female couples who live in states hostile to LGBT rights to come to New Jersey to give birth to their children so that they can get a birth certificate listing both mothers and to obtain court recognition of their parentage which withstands attack in their home state.
Through creative litigation, Bill developed a means for couples living outside New Jersey who needed to dissolve their New Jersey civil union, but are unable to obtain relief in the courts in their home state.
In 2005, he won a landmark victory establishing a non-biological mother's parentage as of birth so that both mother's names appear on the birth certificate from the moment of birth. He was also the attorney who convinced the New Jersey Department of Health to change New Jersey birth certificates to read parent/parent rather than mother/father.
Bill created and runs the LGBT Family Law Institute (FLI), a project of the National LGBT Bar Association and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). FLI holds an annual vetted meeting for 125 lawyers experienced in LGBT family law. The attorneys meet in closed, off the record session to exchange ideas and strategies and to develop a cadre of attorneys to advance the goals of the LGBT community. The meetings attract lawyers from throughout the United States and abroad.
In recognition of his record of achievement, in 2012, the ACLU-NJ gave Bill its Bill of Rights Award for the advancement of civil liberties, particularly in the LGBT community.
When an attorney counsels clients considering the creation of a family, that attorney needs to be sensitive to complicated emotions and knowledgeable about the status of the law. With his years of experience, Bill has the ability to guide families through the intricate, delicate process of adoption and the use of assisted reproductive technology to build a family. Bill also helps families with estate and life planning documents such as wills and powers of attorney and the administration of an estate. His years of involvement in these issues inform his ability to serve his clients.
LGBT Issues:
For four decades, Bill has worked to extend the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community through the use of the legal system and the legislative process.
Bill has assisted same-sex female couples who live in states hostile to LGBT rights to come to New Jersey to give birth to their children so that they can get a birth certificate listing both mothers and to obtain court recognition of their parentage which withstands attack in their home state.
Through creative litigation, Bill developed a means for couples living outside New Jersey who needed to dissolve their New Jersey civil union, but are unable to obtain relief in the courts in their home state.
In 2005, he won a landmark victory establishing a non-biological mother's parentage as of birth so that both mother's names appear on the birth certificate from the moment of birth. He was also the attorney who convinced the New Jersey Department of Health to change New Jersey birth certificates to read parent/parent rather than mother/father.
Bill created and runs the LGBT Family Law Institute (FLI), a project of the National LGBT Bar Association and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). FLI holds an annual vetted meeting for 125 lawyers experienced in LGBT family law. The attorneys meet in closed, off the record session to exchange ideas and strategies and to develop a cadre of attorneys to advance the goals of the LGBT community. The meetings attract lawyers from throughout the United States and abroad.
In recognition of his record of achievement, in 2012, the ACLU-NJ gave Bill its Bill of Rights Award for the advancement of civil liberties, particularly in the LGBT community.
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