Many same-sex marriages legally started in June 2015 or in the few years before.
In states like California, the spouse who earns more get tagged with ongoing support payments when the legal marriage ends. For every two days married, it's another day of payments. But at ten years of being legally married, you can be compelled to make payments for the rest of your life.
As of this writing, it is January 2022. [Bumped this up.]
California started giving contracts to to same-sex couples, uninterrupted, in June 2013. Some of you are rapidly approaching that ten-year mark, and some of you still have over three years until you get there.
Either way, if you're not absolutely certain that both you and your spouse want to keep this legal contract intact for the rest of your lives, you need to figure out what you're going to do.
Don't end up like so many heterosexual men, who are making never-ending payments to someone who hates their guts.
Or, use your proven lobbying power to change marriage and family law for the better.
UPDATE: How many of you have already bailed out? Don't let family law screw you over even more! Get out if you need to.
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