{"id":2026,"date":"2008-05-30T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2008-05-30T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:58:54","slug":"same-sex-marriages-may-not-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/same-sex-marriages-may-not-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Sex Marriage But No Same Sex Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Free points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Unlike Massachusetts, California does not have a law prohibiting marriage in the state if your home state would not recognize the marriage. Thus, allowing same-sex marriage in California will open same-sex marriage up to a lot more people than the Massachusetts change did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In addition, <strong>any same-sex couple from outside of California that gets married in California may find themselves unable to get a divorce<\/strong>. The reason is that divorces are generally governed by the law of your state of domicile. Thus, even if a Maryland couple gets married in California, they could get a divorce only in Maryland. Since Maryland would not recognize the marriage, it would not issue a divorce. Thus, the couple would truly be married for life, unless one or the other of them moved to Massachusetts, California, or another state or foreign jurisdiction that recognizes same-sex marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One comment on her blog mentions<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Strange that in legalizing same-sex marriage, they&#8217;re indirectly promoting the sanctity of marriage (married por vida). Wonder what that will do to the arguments that same-sex marriage diminishes the sanctity of marriage. :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Free points out: &#8230;Unlike Massachusetts, California does not have a law prohibiting marriage in the state if your home state would not recognize the marriage. Thus, allowing same-sex marriage in California will open same-sex marriage up to a lot more people than the Massachusetts change did. &#8230;In addition, any same-sex couple from outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}