These are an analysis by the General Accounting Office detailing all the ways in which married persons have differing legal status from single ones, beneficially or detrimentally so, issued at the time that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act was signed. The second document is an update circa 1997 including legal changes since that time.
These are *federal* law only, and don't take state(s)law into account, but they are an excellent starting point.
(Also? "Thou shalt not shotgun-debug the Constitution!" for the win.)
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Date: 2008-11-10 04:43 am (UTC)http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf
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These are an analysis by the General Accounting Office detailing all the ways in which married persons have differing legal status from single ones, beneficially or detrimentally so, issued at the time that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act was signed. The second document is an update circa 1997 including legal changes since that time.
These are *federal* law only, and don't take state(s)law into account, but they are an excellent starting point.
(Also? "Thou shalt not shotgun-debug the Constitution!" for the win.)