LGBTQ Estate Planning and Related Rights Under the Current Supreme Court (Update)

Estate planning for the LGBTQ community became significantly less challenging when the  Supreme Court, with rulings such as U.S. v. Windsor and Obergefell v.Hodges, seemed to solidify marriage equality and family rights for LGBTQ couples. However, what has now transpired in light of the current Supreme Court composition, rulings, and laws of Southern  States that have embraced this turn away from equality is critical to understand. As discussed before, several factors are involved in most legal struggles for equality: generally, the public must be in favor of or ambivalent to the issue; the public must also have a majority of legislators willing to bring the issues before their colleagues for a vote; or the Supreme Court must have a majority that is either reasonably in favor of the law or contains one or more majority members willing to provide a plurality vote. 

This program, presented by Max Elliott, founder of a Chicago-based firm practicing estate planning and wealth preservation for the LGBTQ community, women, and small business owners, will engage in a high-level discussion of the current landscape of critical estate planning issues for the LGBTQ community, and the implications on those issues by current SCOTUS  decisions.