lesbian divorce
New news in gay marriage around the world.
According to the Miami Herald, it is a good day indeed to be gay in California. Seriously, California gays haven't been this excited since that first guy matched short shorts with roller blades. The California Supreme Court said that domestic partnership is not an acceptable substitute for marriage and by a 4 to 3 margin ruled that gays should be able to get hitched.
As you would expect, some anti-gay marriage groups are pretty unhappy about this. They pledge to get enough signatures to put a constitutional ban on the fall legislative docket. The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has twice … Read More
A case in NY shows some need for legal system to make sense of cohabiting.
What happens when a couple that’s been together for 14 years and has joint bank accounts and residence gets divorced? In some states, they would probably be common law married (Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah). And in the UK, there are laws that protect cohabiting partners. But really there are no laws established in these parts to do anything from a legal standpoint for ‘domestic partners,’ irrespective of their sexual preference.
So, a couple of women living in … Read More
Monroe County doesn't feel a recent court decision applies to them.
According to the National Post, Monroe County in New York is appealing a recent ruling that gay marriages sanctified in Canada count in the US. The argument is that New Yorkers shouldn’t have their laws dictated to them by Canadians. The Coalition to Save Marriage in New York feels that the courts bypassed democratic process by declaring something to be so.
New York’s law states that a marriage is defined as between one man and one woman. And we’re guessing that conservatives have two arguments: 1) Americans shouldn’t be able to go somewhere that has … Read More
Gay marriage is touchy subject worldwide. A few countries allow it and a...
Gay Marriage: Gay marriage is touchy subject worldwide. A few countries allow it and a few US states allow something similar. This was a big year in gay marriage. And gay divorce. These are the biggest stories in gay marriage in 2007.
Canadian same-sex unions growing five times as fast as hetero ones
'Dear Abby' Supports gay marriage
Rhode Island denies lesbian couple’s divorce petition
In a stunning reversal, the Rhode Island supreme court has ruled that a gay...
From Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - Rhode Island's top court narrowly ruled on Friday that a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts -- the only U.S. state to allow gay marriage -- could not legally divorce in Rhode Island, saying that the state's family court did not have authority over same-sex marriages.
Massachusetts currently allows out-of-state same-sex couples from just two states -- Rhode Island and New Mexico -- to marry there, since those states' laws do not clearly prohibit gay marriage.
The 3-2 ruling came in the case of Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston, two women who married in Massachusetts … Read More