Eight Key Estate Planning Opportunities Arising From Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage

Introduction

The U.S. Supreme Court June 26 ruled that a state ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The landmark ruling in the combined cases known as Obergefell v. Hodges
¹2015 BL 204916). The combined cases challenged same-sex marriage bans in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Kentucky. struck down every state ban on same-sex marriage in the country, and by extension, Section 2 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which declared that states have the right to deny recognition of same-sex marriages licensed in ...