Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015, in the matter of Obergefell v. Hodges, same sex couples now have the right to marry throughout the United States.  Further, every state must also recognize the same sex marriages performed in other states. The right for same sex couples to...

This past June, the Supreme Court ruled The Defense of Marriage Act, the law preventing the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, unconstitutional. Previously, even with New York and fourteen other states passing laws allowing gay marriage, DOMA had barred the federal government...

As I’ve written before, the federal government has taken swift action to ensure that same-sex couples are being treated equally under federal law, post United States v. Windsor. Prior to the decision, only opposite-sex couples were recognized by the federal government as legally married. Since then,...

If you are married and live in New York or any of the growing number of jurisdictions in the United States that recognize same-sex marriages, the death of Section 3 of DOMA (the Defense Of Marriage Act) means that, if you are a married gay or lesbian couple, you will enjoy all of the rights and...

On June 26, 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court determined in the Windsor case that the section of DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) that stated, among other things, that same sex couples did not have the legal right to marry, was unconstitutional, the Court opened the door for a U.S. citizen or...