Even the experts are still scrambling to advise puzzled employer retirement plan sponsors about the fallout from the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act last week.
The problem arises mainly over the section of DOMA that the U.S. Supreme Court decision didn't address, the one that says states don't have to recognize same-sex marriages in other states.
Along with the District of Columbia, same-sex marriage is or soon will be recognized in 13 states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
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