One of the issues that arose after the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien, which held that Iowa’s Constitution would not permit Iowa to limit the institution of marriage to opposite-sex couples, regards how the state should treat different types of same-sex unions from other states. Some of the most interesting and important concerns center around the status Iowa will give to out-of-state civil unions and domestic partnerships, relationships that receive legal recognition but are not true marriages in their states of origin. Since federal law (the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act) and choice-of-law principles allow Iowa to recognize out-of-state, same-sex relationships, Iowa courts and legislators must now look to statutory l...
...Under the laws of some States, a common-law marriage is one which is not solemni...
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...
... United States Court of Appeals. UNITED STAT... status based on his alleged common law marriage in 2004 to a United States citizen; and (2) his co...
... under State law for purposes of marriage in the State where the employee resides, includingg common law marriage in States where it is recognized. (b) Parent. Parent means a...
... recognizing same-sex marriage; several states have varying degrees of spousal rights for same-se...
...In the United States, the law of marriage is reserved to the states and...
Whereas in previous work I've focused on seduction, in this essay I focus on women's property rights; I intend to explore the "intricate relations" specific to married unions and prop- erty in early American fiction because coverture - the common law doctrine that held that a woman's legal identity merged with her husband's and that her property became his upon marriage - becomes emblematic for novelists of the inequities embedded in the legal system of the United States in the postRevolutionary era. Not content with merely exposing how coverture undermines affectionate marriage, Wood models alternatives to women's economic dependence by demonstrating the use of marriage settlements, which in Dorval reduce economic incentives for marriage, enhance the economic stability of families, an...
... to Section 688 of Title 10 of the United States Code, which authorizes ordering to active duty ret... under State law for purposes of marriage in the State where the employee resides, including...
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