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Tax and Pension Considerations in Same-Sex Divorce Actions

New York is one if the very few U.S. jurisdictions, other than those states that have actually authorized same-sex marriage, to have given full faith and credit to same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions. Now we can expect a growing number of same-sex couples, validly married somewhere else, to follow their heterosexual counterparts into New York's divorce courts.

24 minute read November 25, 2009 at 09:44 AM
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Stephen A. Zorn and Leigh B. Kahn
Tax and Pension Considerations in Same-Sex Divorce Actions

New York is one if the very few U.S. jurisdictions, other than those states that have actually authorized same-sex marriage (Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont), to have given full faith and credit to same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions.

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