“The thinking used to be among the sophisticated that the best thing, if not the only good thing, about being gay was that you didn’t have to marry!” he wrote.
Lawyers, whose jobs often involve picking up the pieces when things fall apart, know better than almost anyone: stuff happens.” And one commenter at asked whether the right to marriage was the step forward most take it to be or even worth all the trouble. So the world of gay divorce could be a gold mine, given the complexities still associated with gay marriage. “As any tax lawyer can tell you, lawyers thrive-and make the most money on-complexity. At Above the Law, David Lat suggested the problem was only going to get bigger-and more profitable. “It’s a great article that explains why ‘gay divorce’ is as important a rights issue as ‘gay marriage’ for our community, even if we don’t really want to talk about it,” wrote Scott at Gay Marriage Watch. “How do you process the undoing of a bond that until a moment ago in history you were not allowed to form?” ( “ From ‘I Do’ to ‘I’m Done,’” March 4). “For gay couples, the promise of marriage is still so new and incomplete that the idea of matrimonial courts, equitable settlements, and all the rest barely registers,” wrote Jesse Green in a story about the very tangled world of gay-divorce law and the many couples already caught up in it.
