family law, worldwide
Posted in Europe on Jun 19th, 2008
Perhaps with all the excitement over California, not much attention was paid to the fact that an entire country legalized same-sex marriage this week. Effective January 1, 2009, Norway joins Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and South Africa in allowing complete parity between heterosexual and homosexual marriages. Read about it here, in this brief New [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2008
Surely in response to the first same-sex weddings in California this week, Redbook has an interesting article profiling nine different married couples. The author uses the couples as examples of nice marriage types:
Covenant marriage
Second marriage
Polyamorous marriage
Average marriage
Long-distance marriage
Child-free by choice
Same-sex marriage
Late-in-life marriage
Married young
The one marriage type I was unfamiliar with was the covenant marriage. Legal [...]
Posted in North America on May 30th, 2008
New York Governor David Paterson’s spokeswoman Erin Duggan said today that same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries legally must be recognized in New York.
State agencies, including those governing insurance and health care, must immediately change policies and regulations to make sure “spouse,” “husband” and “wife” are clearly understood to include gay couples, according [...]
Posted in North America, Uncategorized on May 16th, 2008
Slate.com analyzes yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling overturning laws making same-sex marriage illegal here. Author Kenji Yoshino argues that while Massachusetts will always have the honor of being the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, the California ruling is legally more significant.
The California Supreme Court came to the same conclusion [as the Massachusetts Supreme [...]
Posted in North America on May 15th, 2008
Proposition 22, a law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman and passed by California voters in 2000, was overturned today by the California Supreme Court. You can read the details from CNN here or from the New York Times here.
Several same-sex couples, gay rights groups and the city of [...]
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