Divorce

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.

A judge in Broward County who found Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional has set a hearing to finalize the divorce of a gay couple.

Almost two-thirds of all same-sex couples who entered legal relationships are female, and overall the divorce rate for gay couples is significantly lower than opposite sex couples.

A judge in Broward County, who in August declared Florida’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, only to later vacate his order on a technicality, has again ruled against the ban.

ATHENS, Ohio — An Ohio judge said he was unaware that both parties in a divorce case were women when he signed a judgement last week granting their divorce. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Athens County Common Pleas Judge George McCarthy approved the divorce on Nov. 25, but said he was unaware the petitioners were of the same sex.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An attorney for a man seeking a divorce from his husband argued Wednesday before the Missouri Supreme Court that the state should dissolve the union, even though the state constitution doesn’t allow same-sex partners to wed.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Attorney General Pam Bondi is opposing a bid by a gay South Florida woman to obtain a divorce from her former partner.

NEW YORK — Cori Jo Long, 31, and Brooke Powell, 30, did everything right before they married. They fell in love slowly, based on years of friendship stretching back to high school. They planned their nuptials carefully for about a year, choosing to travel from Texas to New Hampshire in 2010 as same-sex marriage spread. Sadly, bad times set in …

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.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court won’t consider the constitutionality of the state’s same-sex marriage ban in order to settle a gay couple’s divorce case. The high court said Friday the 2nd District Court of Appeal first should rule on the case, in which a lesbian couple married in Massachusetts and is now seeking a divorce in Florida.

PHOENIX — A transgender man in Arizona who gave birth to three children after beginning his transition from female to male can continue to pursue a divorce, a state appeals court said Wednesday, reversing a judge who refused to end the marriage. A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that Thomas Beatie’s marriage to Nancy Beatie in Hawaii in …

KINGSTON, Tenn. — A Tennessee judge has ruled that two men who married in Iowa and later moved to Tennessee cannot be granted a divorce because the state doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage. In his ruling, Roane County, Tenn., Circuit Court Judge Russell E. Simmons Jr., upheld Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage and said state laws now in effect …

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Same-sex couples who marry in other states won’t find many places in Kansas to divorce if the relationship fails. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Douglas County is currently the only county in Kansas that has issued divorces for same-sex couples.

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Friday by woman legally wed to another woman in Iowa who is now seeking a divorce in the state where they live, saying it didn’t have jurisdiction and therefore could not address the constitutional arguments raised about same-sex marriage and divorce in Nebraska.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The case of a woman who wants to divorce her same-sex partner after legally marrying in Iowa is now in the hands of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas judge has rejected a push by state officials to block a same-sex couple’s divorce and child-custody case from proceeding.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Boone County, Mo., judge has granted what is believed to be the first same-sex divorce in Missouri, which has a constitutional amendment against recognizing same-sex marriages.