Earlier this month, a federal judge in California ruled that a same sex widow of a deceased FedEx employee should get survivor benefits – even though the couple wasn’t married according to state law and one spouse died before the Supreme Court overturned California’s use of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Schuett v.…
Read MoreFor several decades at least, same sex couples have sought ways to legalize shared assets, custody and survivor benefits. This has taken the form of a multitude of legal arrangements whose status, if a couple chooses to become legally married, may be in doubt. The simple answer is: nobody yet knows whether the new law…
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