Tell California: No One Should Lose Their Home For Being Gay!
A widow in mourning for the death of her beloved husband does NOT have to pay a $3000 owner transfer tax just to keep the house she has lived in for the past twenty years. But the faithful LGBT partner, who has also shared the same house with her loved one for twenty years, has to pay $3000 on top of a slew of other problems, including the cost of a funeral, hospital bills, and the loss of a second income. Luckily, California's Assembly Bill 1700 proposes to fix this obvious inequity.
If passed, the bill guarantees that property shared by an LGBT couple be transferred to the surviving partner the same way it would be transferred to a surviving heterosexual spouse--without the prohibitive one percent transfer tax. The couple has only to sign an affidavit that confirms their relationship.
Tell your California law makers to pass AB 1700!
We the undersigned think AB 1700 is a no-brainer. Of course the laws should apply equally to everyone! That's why we claim to live in a democracy! Clearly a surviving LGBT partner or spouse is entitled to the same consideration as a surviving heterosexual spouse. Conservative Christians can keep on railing about the "sanctity" of marriage, but to tax one person and waive that same tax arbitrarily for someone else is an obvious violation of human and civil rights. Please pass AB 1700.
