Like our married counterparts, we own property together. We run up shared expenses and often pay them out of a joint checking account.
Money flows freely between the partners' wallets.
Yet to Uncle Sam, gay couples are invisible. The federal tax code treats us as if we don't exist. The odds are, of course, that the tax-writers will just keep ignoring gay couples' legal limbo. But that shouldn't keep fair-minded Americans from alerting lawmakers to the problem. The reality is that many same-sex, committed couples do not live in a world of financial separation.