Category Archives: Know Your Rights
In a landmark decision on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban, and must recognize, same-sex marriages. They clarified that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, and that it also guarantees due process and equal protection under the law.
This decision may have an effect on more than just same-sex marriages. In response to prior laws that prevented and did not recognize same-sex marriages, some states adopted legislation benefiting domestic partners. In Ohio, for example, unmarried partners of either sex became eligible to join their partners’ health insurance plans and to take time off work to care for a partner who was ill. With the new law in place allowing same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states, these previously...