Not even a successful petition drive can tear asunder the Maryland high court's decision requiring the state to recognize as valid the marriages of same-sex couples who lawfully wed in other states. The Court of Appeals, in its landmark ruling Friday, said recognition is required by the legal doctrine of comity -- under which one state accepts the legal judgments of another -- because same-sex marriage is neither "repugnant" to the state's public policy nor expressly prohibited by state law. The court's ruling came as a Maryland state law permitting same-sex marriages is slated to go into effect Jan. 1. But that law, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, will likely be put before Maryland voters this fall, as opponents of the measure have mounted a petition drive to get the 55,736 signatu...
...Port, who lived in Maryland, filed for divorce on July 12, 2010, in Prince George's County. Cowan...
A common perception in the United States is that half of all marriages will end in divorce. While this may be true today, it was not always the case. The rise in the divorce rate coincided with the time when many states modified their laws, allowing divorce to be initiated unilaterally. Divorce laws began to change in 1970 when California adopted no-fault divorce; the rest of the country followed suit over the next 15 years. No-fault divorce allowed the courts to dissolve marriages based on, for example, irreconcilable differences rather than requiring the fault of one spouse (e.g., because of adultery). Additionally, more than half of the states adopted unilateral divorce during this time, meaning a divorce no longer required the mutual consent of both spouses. Altering the family st...
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Bruce Cook, a divorcee who now leads a recovery group at Vancouvers Columbia Presbyterian Church, helps serve a meal on a recent evening before the group meeting. Cook is among a growing number of Clark County residents divorcing, a trend that experts are grappling to understand. Nationally, divorce rates are falling. ---
... will happen to property he owns in California. Stahnke asks whether the division of assets is fa... get divorced because Washingtons dissolution laws arent as stringent as in Oregon. To file for divor...
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