Legal Question in Consumer Law in Iowa

needed to find out about a business denying a family because there is no marriag

the local ymca has a family package program but will not allow us to have it because we are not married but live in the same household and depend only on his income. they said our children and myself would have to get a single family package and then the father with the income would have to go and get a single person package for himself. which makes it very expensive for our household to do. i dont understand why we would have to do that when we live together in the same house and go on only his income why he could not be in the package with us when they use his income to see how much me and my daughters would have to pay a month. if they use his income for us , why should they be able to use his income twice over for the same household.thank you.


Asked on 4/08/04, 12:13 am

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Thomas Moens Moens Law Offices, Chartered

Re: needed to find out about a business denying a family because there is no mar

I think their position is pathetic, wrong, and morally reprehensible. But it is a private organization, and I don't know of anything illegal about their policy. I'd just take my money, and my family, elsewhere.

As a side note, you might find this article interesting: http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/12/26278294.shtml

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Answered on 4/08/04, 4:32 pm


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