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- Subject: Details on NYC co-op ruling?
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:14:40 EST
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- Anyone remember details of a CourtCase in 1991 that said that same-sex
- couples DO have the right to inherit co-ops? I could swear there was some
- similar decision like this last year. If so, how is the below different?
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- In a decision that lawyers and city officials say could
- affect thousands of cooperatives in New York City, the
- city Human Rights Commission has rules that homosexuals
- have the right to inherit co-op apartments from their
- partners.
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- The decision essentially extends to gay people the same
- rights of inheritance that apply to heterosexual
- spouses. In all co-op agreements that allow
- heterosexual spouses to inherit apartments without
- being subject to the approval of the co-op board, the
- agreement must specifically spell out that gay couples
- have the same right.
-
- If not, the commission ruled, the co-op would be
- violating the city human rights law and could be sued
- for discrimination. Thousands of co-ops could be
- affected, officials said.
-
- The Human Rights Commission interprets and enforces the
- city's anti-discrimination laws. Bud G. Holman, the
- president of the co-operative involved in the case that
- prompted the commission's ruling, said the co-op, at 60
- Sutton Place, would appeal in court. The ruling caps a
- two-year legal fight between the co-op board and a 54-
- year-old gay man, Harry Kirkpatrick, who was bequeathed
- an apartment that belonged to his companion, Martin
- Weiner, but was rejected by the co-op board. Mr.
- Weiner died of AIDS in 1989.
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- RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''
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