Divorce

Something one learns as a parent is that children are often not rational in their behavior. When something happens that is not to their liking, they strike out in a variety of fashions, many of which do not line up to a logical agenda of self-interest.

A Canberra couple have vowed to get a divorce, ending their “sacred” 10-year union, if Australia legalizes same-sex marriage.

Madison County, Ala., Circuit Judge Karen Hall granted a divorce to a same-sex couple on Thursday, a year after denying the same request.

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.

A St. Louis County Circuit Court judge should not have dismissed a request to divorce a same-sex couple, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, but didn’t decide on the broader issue of whether judges can grant divorces to gay couples.

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.

A judge in Kentucky has granted a divorce to a same-sex couple despite the fact the state doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage.

The court ruled that a same-sex couple married in Iowa cannot get a divorce in Florida in a case that did not challenge the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

An Ohio judge who mistakenly approved a divorce between two women vacated his decision because their marriage isn’t recognized under state law.

Circuit Judge Dale Cohen on Wednesday dissolved the marriage of Heather Brassner and Megan Lade, who were united in a 2002 civil union in Vermont.