The Importance of Codifying the Respect for Marriage Act

Legal Legal Legal Legal wrote in and directed me to 42 USC section 416 H, which is the section of determination of family status. It says an applicant is the surviving spouse of a fully or currently insured individual for purposes of the subjector. And so this is pre the respect for marriage act, how the law worked. There are relationships that are short of marriage in the law right now. Like say one between two podcast co hosts.