Laura Nahmias details how DOMA is discouraging marriages in New York despite the state's historic vote last June:
Empire State Pride Agenda President Ross Levi said the group has seen an upswing in businesses asking for help figuring out whether to keep their domestic partnership plans. Many assumed that same-sex marriage would allow them to stop offering domestic partnerships to employees, but ESPA is urging unions and businesses to wait—saying the taxes and legal tangles are so great, they might deter some people from getting married. … Ernst & Young LLP, for example, did not at first offer domestic partner benefits in states that legalized same-sex marriage, but added them back after it realized the complications, said the company’s Chris Crespo: "It was a big ‘aha’-moment."
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