Why Where You Divorce Matters: Equitable Distribution vs. Community – Property Where you divorce matters. Each state has its own unique rules governing the allocation of assets during the divorce process, and these rules can vary significantly. A court in New York and a court in California will follow strikingly different rules in dividing the assets of divorcing couples. This sharp divergence between state laws is somewhat unusual — in other areas, such as business law, the laws of each state tend to conform to a single norm.

Obama, Bayard Rustin, and the New LGBT Civil-Rights Movement – As the U.S. celebrates the equality movement of the 1960s, a new one is on the march. Could anyone have tethered the two like the first black president?