Same Sex Marriage was established as a federal right in 2015. By law, same sex couples now share all the legal protections opposite sex couples relish. However, same sex couples continue to face adversity and discrimination in pursuit of their legal rights. The recent Supreme Court ruling, Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a case…
Read MoreSame sex couples in in Pennsylvania, in light of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing same sex marriage, should also have the right to prove common law marriage retroactively. Since all common law marriages were abolished in Pennsylvania in January 2005, any couple wishing to prove common law marriages in Pennsylvania now have the…
Read MoreEarlier 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.…
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