Marriage With Benefits

If you want to do all you can to solve marital problems and save your marriage, consider marriage counseling. There are hundreds of federal benefits, rights, and protections available to married couples and their children, regardless of whether they're same-sex or. A couple pays a “marriage penalty” if the partners pay more income tax as a married couple than they would pay as unmarried individuals. Does the Department of Veterans Affairs recognize my marriage as valid? The benefits of marriage.