Perspective
Jul. 2, 2013
Same-sex marriage rulings bring new opportunities in estate planning
The result is that federal benefits conferred to married couples in over 1,000 federal statutes now benefit same-sex couples as well. By Robert Klueger
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry - dismissing the appeal of a lower court's finding that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional - same-sex couples in California are once again free to marry. More significantly, in United States v. Windsor, the court ruled that Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional. The result is that federal benefits conferred to married couples in over 1,000 federal statu...
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