If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, then two U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving same-sex marriages are now certain—effective today. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday formally put into place amendments to regulations that define who is married for tax purposes.
The Supreme Court in 2013 in United States v. Windsor struck down the definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman in the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Two years later, the high court in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriages legal throughout the nation.
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