They are denied the right to marry a same-sex spouse.

A same-sex spouse probably couldn't count on any long-term alimony .

All existing legal conditions and controls will apply to same-sex spouses equally to spouses of different sexes, or to single people.

Other airlines have taken up the issue of whether domestic partners who are not legal spouses and same-sex spouses can be included.

The plaintiffs in that case had unsuccessfully challenged the denial of immediate relative status to the same-sex spouse of an American citizen.

Even if the relationship is formalized with the state in a marriage or union, that does not always obligate the employer to cover a same-sex spouse.

A 2006 statute legalized adoption by same-sex spouses.

Entering same-sex spouses does not prompt a dialogue box with Family Heritage, and the program is more contemporary in its treatment of spouses.

Employers do not have to provide survivor pension benefits to a same-sex spouse, but many do anyway (which would put our best case at $0).

It would deny to same-sex 'spouses' only a status that is specially recognized in society and has significant social and other advantages.