Posted on Mon Jun 9, 2014, on LGBT Estate Planning
After the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Windsor, which found unconstitutional the portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) that defined “marriage” as a union between a man and woman, and “spouse” as only a person of the opposite sex, and the decision in Whitewood v. Wolf, where the U.S. District Court struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage, Pennsylvanians can enter into same-sex marriages and same-sex marriages from other states will be recognized as valid in Pennsylvania.