What's the catch?

We get asked this question quite often:

How can Rainbow Law make such high quality legal documents for FREE? What’s the catch?

Well, there is no catch!

We are a lesbian couple with children and grandchildren who live in a state that does not provide legal rights and protections for our family. We understand the need for legal documents that create rights and benefits that the law does not provide. Furthermore, we have the skill and knowledge to provide this service to our community and it pleases us to do so.

We also create affordable legal document packages that provide further and more elaborate protections – i.e. inheritance rights, rights to raise children, rights to make decisions about funeral arrangements, and more.

The money we receive from donations (funding 75% of our budget) and the sale of affordable legal document packages (supplying 25% of our budget) allows us to provide state specific Advance Directives at no charge to the LGBTQ Community.

Why do we work so hard to find a way to make Rainbow Law Advance Directives free?

Because we don't believe LGBTQ families should have to pay for such basic and fundamental legal rights when those rights are automatically granted to heterosexual married couples – free of charge – simply because they are married in the eyes of the law.

You should not have to spend a fortune (and some attorneys charge huge sums of money) to buy something that you deserve – just like every other American citizen.

LGBTQ people are not asking for anything more than what is promised and delivered to everyone else.

It does not cost the government one-red-cent to grant us the right to be present in our partner’s hospital room – or to make decisions about our partner’s health care and finances. Yet we are denied those rights by elected officials who base their votes and policy decisions on an illegal religious test (for that is what is behind anti-gay legislation) that creates a second class of citizenship for same-sex couples.

It is degrading and infuriating to be told that we have no right to choose and protect our family!

Rainbow Law – Carrie and Elisia -- are determined to stand with you in our struggle against inequality and for full rights as US citizens – including the right to marry.

In order to be able to continue our work, we need your help.

We are in our Fall Fundraising Season and need to raise $30,000 by December 21, 2007 so that we can carry on for another year.

If you believe in us and think what we are doing is valuable, PLEASE donate even a small amount to show your support!

This year, we are offering some cool gifts in exchange for your donation so we hope you’ll take a look and help us continue to help you!

Elisia & Carrie Ross-Stone
Co-Founders of Rainbow Law