At present, it is impossible for a member of a married couple to change gender and remain legally married.
Innocent spouse cases come from the dark side of the joint return privelege afforded to legally married heterosexual couples.
There are about approximately 120, 000 legally married same-sex couples in the United States.
There are about 120, 000 legally married same-sex couples in the United States.
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Magistrates heard Floodgate was still legally married to 26-year-old Rachel when he wed 55-year-old Sheila Siebert at the Circus Circus Hotel on 5 June.
On Wednesday, the justices will consider the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of benefits afforded straight married Americans.
There about 120, 000 legally married homosexual couples in the United States.
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JCOPE's "2013 Ethics Filing Instructions" states under "family" that only legally married spouses need provide financial data as part of a public official's annual financial filing.
Of respondents who were legally married or partnered within the past 5 years (577 couples), 43% went on a honeymoon, with 50% traveling to warm-weather destinations.
But because same-sex couples are not considered legally married under the eyes of the federal government, the dollar value of the health coverage is considered taxable income.
The court was also asked to consider the merits of a challenge to part of a 2009 Arizona law granting marital benefits only to legally married state employees.
In Mississippi, I met folks like L.B. and Sara Bell, who are legally married in Connecticut but don't get any of the rights that go with that partnership in the Hospitality State.
In one case, several parties have challenged a federal law known as the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma), a measure that denies federal benefits available for straight couples to legally married same-sex couples.
Mr Gordon said Mr Beatie, 39, was legally married as a man and never was required to disclose that he retained female reproductive organs when applying for the birth certificate in Hawaii as a man.
On the other side, Chief Justice John Roberts repeatedly asked whether it would step on state power to do the opposite of DOMA -- pass a law providing full federal benefits to any legally married same-sex couple.
"However, we do have concerns with the current version of the bill, particularly the provisions which mean that a couple legally married in England or Wales will have their relationship only recognised as a civil partnership in Northern Ireland, " he said.
Gay rights advocates hope this will be the session in which the justices decide a key issue involving same-sex marriage: whether homosexual couples who are legally married under state law are entitled to the same benefits under federal law as heterosexual spouses.
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Legally, Russell and Taylor were still married, which made her the next of kin.
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Washington (CNN) -- Maryland's highest court has ruled that a lesbian couple married out of state can legally file for divorce, even though Maryland's own same-sex marriage law does not take effect until next year.
Two, almost half of the players in the NBA ask for advances on their paychecks during any given month, frequently because they spend a high percentage of their earnings, their cash is tied up in illiquid investments, and more than a handful are legally bound to support women they are not married to but have had children with.
There are probably even more women inventors than most people are aware of, given that until the passage of the Married Women's Property Act, everything owned or invented by a woman was legally her husband's possession.
Three years later, roughly the same proportion of civil-union couples and married couples had split but just two of the 13 same-sex couples had legally terminated their civil union.
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