For some couples who are very different in age, survivor benefits also come into play.
For some families and couples Christmas can, by contrast, be a bonding experience.
In 2001, a bill was signed which offered some relief for married couples.
It's a good idea for some, but most couples don't have a lot of assets to worry about at the start, and many a moony-eyed pair think there's something unromantic about beginning a lifelong commitment with a financial document drafted by lawyers.
Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.
The studies Mr. Noer cites are certainly cause to investigate more into the why's of these findings to further understand the issues and perhaps tailor some type of help for the couples at risk.
As a surrogate in the UK, it is illegal for Miss Broomhall to receive payment, although some couples have offered her large sums of money to carry their child.
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While interracial couples are a source of conflict for some families, interracial marriage is on the rise in America.
When it comes to getting hitched, some couples want to have a wedding for the sake of showing their commitment to friends and family, regardless of whether it will be legally recognized where they live, she said.
To determine which couples landed on the list, we looked at both Web presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list couples--some still together, some not--over the course of the last year.
While divorce is perhaps most appropriately a private matter, some couples do make very public headlines when they split, and for those of us in the business of helping people through divorce, these newsmakers often provide useful cautionary tales.
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Some are well-qualified and earning good salaries: professional couples look for educated nannies with qualifications in first aid and the like, and pay accordingly.
"We began looking for examples of couples that struck as very authentic and believable in a moment that captured some bit of intimacy, " Hamm said.
That means none of what by some estimates are 1, 000 different federal benefits for spouses apply to same-sex married couples.
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More than that, some gay couples who wed in Hawaii will return to their states to begin court battles for recognition of their now legal unions.
Some in the government argue that the law should go even further by offering state funding for artificial insemination for gay couples.
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