Federal privileges to extend to same-sex couples

[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced [text, PDF] on Saturday that the federal government plans to give married same-sex couples the same benefits as heterosexual couples when filing for bankruptcy, testifying in court or visiting family members in prison. These benefits would allow same-sex couples to be covered by spousal privilege in criminal investigations, wherein one spouse cannot be forced to testify against the other. Same-sex couples would also receive visitation rights in prison, and could be...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/02/federal-privileges-to-extend-to-same-sex-couples.php

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