Czekala-Chatham v. Melancon

Two years after their divorce filing got tangled up in Mississippi’s efforts to prevent same-sex marriage, a judge dissolved the legal union of Lauren Czekala-Chatham and Dana Ann Melancon.

The Mississippi Supreme Court voted to allow a lesbian couple to seek a divorce — even as two justices claimed The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling has no constitutional basis.

Two Mississippi Supreme Court justices said Thursday that the court should find the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and not wait for a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Mississippi attorney general’s office told the court that the state can’t grant a divorce to same-sex couple because their marriage is void in Mississippi.

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Jan. 21 from a woman who wants the state to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce.

JACKSON, Miss. — The attorney for a woman who wants the state of Mississippi to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce says his client’s case is on a parallel track to the efforts in federal court to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage.

JACKSON, Miss. — The American Civil Liberties Union wants to file a brief in support of a woman who wants the state of Mississippi to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce. The Mississippi Supreme Court has not ruled on the motion filed Thursday. It’s unclear if the court will hear oral arguments or when it might rule….

JACKSON, Miss. — Gov. Phil Bryant is intervening in a case involving a Mississippi woman who wants the state to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce. Bryant, represented by Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, is opposing the woman’s appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court.

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi judge on Monday refused to grant a divorce to a lesbian couple who got married in California, saying the marriage wasn’t recognized under state law, according to the woman who filed and her lawyer.

HERNANDO, Miss. — Lauren Beth Czekala-Chatham wants to force Mississippi, one of the America’s most conservative states, to recognize her same-sex marriage. She hopes to do so by getting a divorce.