Last week's Supreme Court's decision in the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA") case will have an instant impact on employers and the benefit programs offered to their employees. Given that the case effectively changed the law overnight, there are some questions to which the answers are known, some questions to which the answers are unknown at this time, and some questions that are "unknowable" now but will arise as employers begin to acclimate to the post-DOMA environment. The following is a discussion of the "known knowns" that employers and their benefits departments must be prepared to address immediately.
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