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Monday, September 25, 2006

Law - " Divorcing gay couples create new legal issues"

"Divorcing gay couples create new legal issues: Alimony, property questions have even lawyers confused" is the headline to a story today in the San Francisco Chronicle. It begins:

Gay and lesbian couples in the United States cannot marry anywhere except Massachusetts, but many states that legally recognize same-sex couples now send them to divorce court if they break up.

Same-sex couples who break up are finding themselves in a legal morass. State divorce laws conflict with federal tax laws; differences among states' laws can jeopardize child-custody agreements if one or both partners move; and some attorneys are shying away from same-sex divorces for fear of their own liability.

When I was in law school, the issue was "Reno divorces", which were not recoqnized in many jurisidictions.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 25, 2006 02:53 PM
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