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Wages of an employee working for one's spouse are exempt from federal unemployment tax [5] Joint and family-related rights: Joint filing of bankruptcy permitted; Joint parenting rights, such as access to children's school records; Family visitation rights for the spouse and non-biological children, such as to visit a spouse in a hospital or prison
Property owned by one spouse before the marriage is sometimes referred to as the "separate property" of that spouse, but there are instances in which the community can gain an interest in separate property and even situations in which separate property can be "transmuted" into community property. The rules vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Louisiana affords a man the "marital presumption of paternity" of any child his wife has while they are married, but does not afford this same treatment to same-sex couples. This means that custodial rights of a spouse in a same-sex relationship with no biological ties to the child is not automatically recognized. [41]
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law originating from the French word couverture, meaning "covering", in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband.
During the debate Sen. Feinstein noted that DOMA denies same-sex couples more than 1,100 federal rights and benefits that are provided to all other members of that class, legally married couples, including rights to Social Security spousal benefits, protection from estate taxes when a spouse passes away, and the ability to file taxes jointly ...
(Reuters) - Over 340,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana were left without power on Thursday after Hurricane Francine barrelled onto the state's Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
A 1997 Louisiana law created a civil cause-of-action for abortion-related damages, including damage to the unborn child for up to ten years after the abortion. The same law also barred the state's Patient's Compensation Fund (which limits malpractice liability for participating physicians) from insuring against abortion-related claims.