Preparing for the Worst of Republican Lawmakers’ Goals
Due to legitimate growing concerns of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community since President Trump was inaugurated in January of 2025, Owner and Managing Partner of Smith & Bledsoe Family Law, Christian Smith, began immediately researching, innovating, and crafting legal documents that would protect her own family. Christian has been a family law attorney for many years, and a rewarding part of her practice has always been serving members of her LGBT community. Christian is married to another woman, and they have children together as well. She knew immediately there was a good chance that Republican control of all three branches of the federal government would result in the erosion and reversal of hard-earned rights for families like hers.
Protecting Your Spousal Rights
She set out to work to proactively and defensively stop Republicans in their tracks. She has done this by building her Defensive Estate Plan, which intends to recreate the rights of marriage for LGBT families in Texas, should that right ever be taken away. This plan (up to nine-parts) includes documents for healthcare related rights, legal rights, and property rights. She’s also drafted correlating codicils to amend existing estate plans.
Protecting Your Parental Rights
After the Defensive Estate Plan template was finalized, she began her work on Agreed Parental Adjudications, which provide quick relief to Austin residents looking for fast solutions to solidifying their parental rights over their children if they have two-mom or two-dad households. She has since also perfected Second-Parent Adoptions as well for Texas residents that are composed of two-mom and two-dad families, as well as other-gendered families.
Contact Smith & Bledsoe Family Law
Christian Smith is one of the few, if not the only attorney in the Austin, Texas area that has released this cutting-edge Defensive Package to protect the members of the LGBT community in Texas from the Republicans’ plans to destroy their families and marriages. Should Obergefell v. Hodges be overturned just like Roe v. Wade was, Christian Smith at Smith & Bledsoe Family Law will be ready, and so will the families who have retained her services.
Christian and her wife have implemented these exact legal protections for their own family, and her goal is to protect her clients and other LGBT families in the community as well by being proactive, acting defensively, and ensuring LGBT families in Texas are protected NOW. We aren’t going to stand by anymore while they try to tear our families apart. If you’re ready to fight for your family NOW, please fill out the form on this page or call (512) 277-3166 to learn more and talk to an attorney at Christian’s firm about your family’s unique needs and options.