Gay Couples Will Get a Financial Boost in Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- In a win for equality and the finances of gay couples, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. In Obergefell v. Hodges, better known as the gay marriage case, the justices held that states cannot constitutionally ban couples from getting married on the basis of sexual orientation. This decision does not, as some have described it, create an actual right to gay marriage but rather establishes that states can't discriminate betw...