Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Gay couples who say “I do” in New York and the five other states that have legalized same-sex marriage should also quickly consider retirement planning, because the financial implications of a same-sex partnership are more complex than they are for conventional marriages. Anna Pfaehler, a CFP with Palisades Hudson Financial Group in Scarsdale, N.Y., offers

Married couples usually have two choices when deciding which tax-filing status to use, married filing jointly or separately. But it’s a bit more complicated for spouses in same-sex marriages. In the states where such marriages are legal, gay and lesbian married couples typically are afforded the same filing status options as their heterosexual counterparts. On Internal Revenue