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Next Up: Battle for Gay Divorce?

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

New York made headlines earlier this summer when it passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. Homosexual couples in New York, and nationwide, celebrated the new law.

Understandably, fewer headlines involved another right for same-sex couples — the right to divorce. After all, for same sex couples seeking to spend their lives together in marriage, divorce is not something newlyweds are likely to immediately consider. Yet the ability to obtain a legal divorce is an important right for same-sex married couples.

No hard data exists on the divorce rate for gay couples in states that allow gay marriage. However, a study conducted by the University of California Los Angeles Law School’s Williams Institute found that about 2 percent of same-sex couples dissolve their relationship in any given year, which is approximately the same rate as among heterosexual couples.

Full Story from US Politics Today

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UK: Gays and Lesbians Less Likely to Divorce Than Straights

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

In 2009, the United Kingdom saw divorce drop to 10.5%. This is an important number, in fact. Since 2005, when civil partnerships were offered in the UK, 50,000 same-sex couples have taken the plunge.

In 2010, 6,385 civil partnerships were registered in the UK, which was a slight increase over 2009. What is more, in 2010, 509 civil partnerships were dissolved, which was a 44% jump from the year before when 353 partnerships ended.

To give you some idea, in 2010, 8% of civil partnerships dissolved, and in 2009, that figure was around 6%. It was noted by the Office for National Statistics in the UK that lesbian couples dissolved their partnerships at a higher rate than gay male partnerships ended- about 3.3% and 1.6% respectively.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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Patchwork of Laws Complicates Gay Divorces

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Gay DivorceGreg and John Rodriguez said “I do” in 2008 in matching white tuxedos before their two young sons and 200 guests — some who flew in from Singapore and London. Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet officiated the $60,000 ceremony.

“A lot of people cried” Greg Rodriguez said. “We both cried.”

They were among 18,000 gay couples who raced to the altar in the four months between the state Supreme Court striking down a same-sex marriage ban and California voters approving a new one.

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Argentina: First Gay Divorce Since Marriage Equality Legalization

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Lesbian Divorce in ArgentinaArgentina is about to have its first gay divorce, not quite a year after a groundbreaking law legalized homosexual marriage.

The Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals says the divorce involves a female couple who have only been married since April 20.

Federation president Esteban Paulon says theirs is the first divorce since July 2010, when Argentina became the first Latin American nation to authorize gay marriage everywhere in the country.

Full Story from Edge Boston

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TX: Attorney General Fights Another Gay Divorce

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Angelique NaylorIn the on-going saga over whether Texas can grant gay couples a divorce when the state doesn’t recognize same-sex unions at all, the state’s attorney general’s office argued before a federal appeals court yesterday that the state should be able to refuse the dissolution of a marriage it doesn’t consider valid. Makes sense, no?

If you’re just joining us, recall that there are actually a few gay divorce cases going on in Texas. There’s Jeffrey and Henry Buck (who married in Massachusetts in 2006), who have been fighting to get Texas to grant them a divorce – something AG Gregory Abbott has been working furiously to keep the courts from granting.

The last round, in August, went to Abbot when a federal judge overturned a lower court’s ruling that granted the divorce, effectively keeping the Bucks married. But not married. Confusing! (The Bucks, meanwhile, don’t want to be the posterchildren for gay marriage/divorce.)

Full Story from Queerty

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Gay Divorce Also Offers Important Rights, Protections

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

When we look at exuberant wedding photos, we never think, “Oh, good! Now those two can get divorced!” But in fact, the right to a divorce is just as important as the right to marry.

In a charming, poignant essay in the Boston Globe, Jarrett Barrios talks about how marriage rights for same-sex couples also give these couples the right to a divorce, and why that’s so important.

Barrios knows whereof he speaks. As a state senator in Massachusetts, he was one of the first elected officials in the country to marry his same-sex partner. Now, after 16 years together, the couple have separated and are in the process of divorcing. Barrios says he felt like a failure when his relationship fell apart. Happy gay and lesbian couples marching victoriously down the aisle together make a better image of gay marriage than hurt, angry people settling a divorce.

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CA: Gay Divorce Bill Passes Assembly, Heads to Senate

Monday, May 17th, 2010

California’s same-sex domestic partners and married couples seeking breakups should find those processes simpler if the Separation Equity Act bill that passed in the state Assembly on Thursday passes the Senate as well.

Some couples are united as domestic partners and as legally married spouses. That is because many domestic partners chose to marry each other when the option became legally available to them. But current divorce law requires them to dissolve each of the unions separately.

According to proponents of the bill, couples who represent themselves in their divorce might not be aware that both processes have to be completed. They are also required to pay a separate fee for each.

Full Story from SF Public Press

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RI: House Considering Gay Divorce Bill

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

To some, it was about access to justice. To others, it was about a hidden agenda to legalize same-sex marriage. And for the dozen or so people who spoke Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, there was no common ground.

Drawing the attention was a bill sponsored by Rep. Timothy A. Williamson, D-West Warwick, that would allow couples to divorce in Rhode Island even if they were not eligible to marry here.

That ability, Williamson and some supporters of the bill said, is granted in other cases where a couple is not eligible to marry in Rhode Island – for example, cases involving a woman who marries before she is 16, or those involving a marriage that Rhode Island law would deem incestuous. But it is not granted in the case of same-sex marriages.

Full Story from Projo.com

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TX: Possible Ramifications of Same Sex Divorce Cases

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Texas is doing it again. We’re trying some serious contortions to make sure gays and lesbians can’t share in the same rights as heterosexuals, and this time the whole danged opera could blow up in our faces.

Last Wednesday, an appeals court in Dallas was to hear two cases which had already been decided in lower courts in this state. These cases were divorces, one involving two gay men and the other involving two lesbians. Both marriages had been performed in Massachusetts after that state legalized gay marriage in 2004, and both couples filed for divorce in Texas.

State Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the appeals on the grounds that same-sex unions are illegal in Texas. In a curious bit of irony it appears that Abbott has deemed it necessary to protect the mechanism of divorce as a way to guarantee the sanctity of marriage.

Full Story from Amarillo.com

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TX: Attorneys Argue Gay Divorce Case in Court

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

A man seeking to end his same-sex marriage in Dallas County is arguing an ironic point in a state that doesn’t recognize his nuptials: Grant the divorce and there will be one less gay marriage in Texas.

“My client is a married man and he needs a divorce,” said the man’s attorney, Jody Scheske, who argued that granting the divorce promotes the state’s policy against gay marriage. “But for the actions of the attorney general, there would already be one less same-sex marriage in Texas.”

That argument came Wednesday before a three-judge panel in the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas that is hearing arguments after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appealed a state district judge’s ruling in October to grant the divorce. In her decision, Judge Tena Callahan also ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Full Story from Dallas News

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