Posted on 11/24/2006 6:30:32 AM PST by presidio9
A lesbian couple married in Massachusetts has filed for divorce in Rhode Island, setting up a legal conundrum for judges in a state where the laws are silent on the legality of same-sex marriage. Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston of Providence were married after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage. Chambers' attorney, Louis Pulner, said Wednesday the couple had irreconcilable differences, and filed for divorce Oct. 23 in Rhode Island family court.
Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah Jeremiah Jr. said he believed it was the filing for a same-sex divorce in Rhode Island. He has not yet decided whether the court has jurisdiction. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 5.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the only state to allow same-sex couples to marry after the state Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to ban it.
Until recently, it was up in the air whether couples from out of state could marry in Massachusetts. In September, a Massachusetts judge decided that nothing in Rhode Island law specifically bans gay marriage and said couples from the Ocean State could legally marry there.
However, Rhode Island has not taken any action to recognize same-sex unions made in Massachusetts. State Attorney General Patrick Lynch has said it is a matter for the courts and legislature to decide.
"Now the ultimate question is whether the state will recognize or determine whether it has jurisdiction to handle an out-of-state divorce when we don't have any case law that accepts or rejects same-sex marriage," Pulner said.
Courts nationwide could soon find themselves facing similar dilemmas, especially as more and more same-sex couples are married in Massachusetts, said Janet Halley, a professor at Harvard Law School who researches the topic. Marital status
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"Nancy Palmisciano, an attorney for Ormiston"
nuff said
it would not happen here. virginia defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
My only question is: Did they beat Kevin and Britney in longest marriage? I know that they beat Britney's first marriage by a landslide, but her second marriage might be close.
That's what inevitably happens, whenever you remove your finger from the dyke wall.
[::rimshot::]
More pressing is who get the double dildo.
If a state doesn't recognize gay marriages, then why would they have to recognize a divorce filing? The state should ignore them. Let the couple go back to the state that let them marry to file papers and get involved in the mess that it has created.
I bet they have a whole bag of them. Divide the contents of the bag and be done with this silly BS. This whole issue of gay marriage sickens me. I have never known anyone that was gay to be a happy person. Why do they use the term Gay anyway?
(And now one will be looking for Men in Trees.)
There MUST be Fifty Ways!
King Solomon had the answer!
I remember this potential 'conundrum' being debated on FR about four years ago. Watch what happens......the side standing to lose the most will now claim that it wasn't a legal marriage in the first place because they are gay.
Irreconcilable similarities?
Will they pay each other alimony?
Dunno how familiar you are with Rhode Island, but trust me that it is only a matter of time before we have sodomite "marraige" here. This stunt may speed that dark day along, but it would occur regardless.
I am, and you are correct.
This divorce effort has been hand in glove with the homosexual normalization effort.
In fact in TX the "divorce" of a homosexual couple was undone only after an attorney general intervention.
The homosexual activist groups seek "dissolution" as a means of regoconition must the same way common law marriages from one state are recognized in other states.
IE a colorado common law marraige will be recognized in FL which has outlawed common law marriage.
The issue is wheter the 1996 DMA will be addressed and whether the federal attorney general will intervene.
We have many homoseual staffers, as exposed by the foley fiasco, who activly work within the ranks of the parties to push homosexual behavior normalizing.
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