by Arthur Geffen | Aug 29, 2013 | Dallas Estate Lawyer, Dallas Probate Lawyer, DOMA, Income Tax
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, will be treated as married for federal tax purposes. The ruling applies regardless of...
by Arthur Geffen | Aug 6, 2013 | DOMA, LGBT, LGBT Issues
When New York residents Mark Strong and Craig Partin married in New York last October, their marriage wasn’t recognized by the federal government. So the duo took extra planning steps to make sure either spouse could afford the estate tax on what he would...
by Arthur Geffen | Sep 28, 2012 | DOMA, LGBT, LGBT Issues
As same-sex couples wait for the Supreme Court to decide if it will hear one of five challenges to a law that bans federal recognition of gay marriage, opening arguments were heard Thursday in one such case in New York. The case before the U.S. 2nd Court of...
