Colleen Logan, writing in the Huffington Post, writes about five reasons why the LGBT community is ready for same-sex marriage but not divorce. The upshot is that there are legal ramifications from state-sanctioned matrimony. Those include:
One- The law's notion of presumed parenthood does not protect non-biological mothers and fathers. "Until the law sees fit to protect both parents in a same-sex couple in the case of divorce, we won't truly be ready for marriage," Logan writes.
Two- Different tax treatment is going to ensue from same-sex matrimony: "Filing jointly may seem like a benefit, but what if your newly betrothed had huge tax debt that you didn't know about before you got hitched? Coupling your doom is the fact that that sweet little refund that you used to get as single and head of household is now a distant memory," Logan also writes.
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