Estate-Planning Construction Issues Post-Obergefell

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodge¹ changed the legal understanding of marriage in the United States. By making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and requiring all states and Washington, D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, the Supreme Court in Obergefell recognized evolving social attitudes toward same-sex marriage and expanded the legal definition of “marriage” to include spouses of the same sex.