Legally married, same-sex couples in states that allow same-sex marriage did not get recognition from the federal government, including -- to name a few -- tax benefits, inheritance benefits, as well as less well-known benefits, such as being buried next to a spouse in a veteran's cemetery.
Additional benefits provided to married couples include, Social Security, immigration status, the right to decline to testify against a spouse, joint bankruptcy filing and protection of spousal obligations, surviving spouse benefits, benefits under victim's compensation funds (i.e. 9/11 victims funds), hospital visits, and, of course, inheritance benefits.
They would then be entitled to the same rights as married couples with respect to income tax, inheritance, welfare benefits, change of name, landlord-tenant relations, immigration, civil-service privileges and so on, though they would still not be allowed to adopt children.In this section End of a dream?
The symbionts, with their maternal inheritance, benefit from inducing the production of exclusively daughters, however the optimal sex ratio for the nuclear genome is more male-biased.
The United Kingdom last year, for example, granted gay couples extensive rights of inheritance, tax benefits and more.
Issues including adoption rights, inheritance, insurance benefits and matters as mundane as sharing health club memberships are likely to arise in courts and state legislatures.
Ms. Hess noted that the couple, of Cambridge, Mass., were ineligible for the income and inheritance tax benefits of married couples.
The conservative thing to do is to responsibly manage our investment in public lands to ensure this wonderful inheritance produces benefits indefinitely.
ED -- On the basic nuts-and-bolts end, we have a family now, and our children need to be protected: inheritance rights, tax benefits, insurance benefits.
Social Security benefits, inheritance tax.
Welfare cuts, working tax credits, Sunday trading, housing benefits, inheritance tax, oiky kiddy bashing, yadda yadda yadda.
