Law professor: Slippery slope to legal incest and polygamy

Bovine feces. Under what instance would a legal spouse not receive survivor benefits?

If a heterosexual couple marries in one state and one starts to collect survivor benefits due to the death of their legal spouse and then that individual moves to another state, their benefits are not at risk. The benefits of a gay couple are...because of DOMA.

The Supreme Court did not touch a DOMA provision that states need not recognize same-sex marriages performed by other states. Because the Social Security Act relies on where you were "domiciled when you filed for benefits," Congress will have to address changing the law to apply to couples who get married in states where gay marriages are legal but move to states where they're not.

Supreme Court DOMA Decision Grants Social Security, Medicare Benefits to Same-Sex Couples - WSJ.com

Back to DOMA again, when are you going to get over it?

When it's repealed and all legal marriages are treated exactly the same.

Except where they aren't, like happened long before DOMA existed.
 

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