We have been celebrating both landmark Supreme Court decisions of this week. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html; http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare-survives-supreme-court-challenge/2015/06/25/af87608e-188a-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html
As family and divorce mediators, we have literally watched the Affordable Care Act change how divorcing families are able to provide for their children through young adulthood and for themselves once they can no longer remain on a spouse’s health insurance. Similarly, in the early years, same sex couples who were splitting up, were outside of any legal framework and would come to our office in Chelsea to mediate their separations, often struggling to understand ways to provide for children and for one another. The role of the law in such instances was minimal. Going forward, same sex couples face far fewer obstacles and benefit from the legal protections afforded by matrimony.