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• Tuesday, March 18

  Lesbian couple married in Mass. seeks annulment in Missouri

  Source: St. Joseph News-Press , Associated Press via Boston Herald , KY3 TV ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A lesbian’s request for an annulment from her lesbian partner has created a legal quandary for a circuit judge. Missouri doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages from other states. Charisse Sparks and Janet Peters Mauceri Sparks married each other in Boston three years ago and moved to Missouri shortly thereafter. Late last year, Charisse Sparks went to Buchanan County Circuit Court to dissolve the marriage. The filing is a legal challenge in a state that voted overwhelmingly four years ago to limit marriage... Posted Mar 18 2008, 11:58 AM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: marriage equality, law, state:MA, state:RI, state:MO

• Friday, December 14

  Gay divorce case refiled in a different Rhode Island court

  Source: Providence Journal and Boston Globe PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Less than a week after the Rhode Island Supreme Court said a same-sex couple could not get divorced in Family Court, one of the Providence women involved in the groundbreaking case filed for divorce yesterday in Superior Court, the main state trial court. The new filing is a tactical move intended to skirt a major roadblock caused by a recent state Supreme Court ruling. Margaret R. Chambers and Cassandra B. Ormiston married in Fall River in May 2004 shortly after Massachusetts became the first state to issue marriage licenses to same... Posted Dec 14 2007, 08:18 PM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: marriage equality, law, state:MA, state:RI

• Friday, December 07

  Rhode Island lesbian couple married in Mass. can't get a divorce in home state

  Source: Providence Journal Providence, R.I. -- The state Supreme Court has ruled that a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts may not divorce in Rhode Island. The court was split, 3-2, on the decision. In the case, the court was asked by the Rhode Island Family Court whether Margaret R. Chambers and Cassandra B. Ormiston, two women who were married in Massachusetts, could divorce in Rhode Island. Chambers and Ormiston married in Fall River in May 2004, shortly after Massachusetts became the first state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Chambers filed for divorce last year in Rhode... Posted Dec 07 2007, 11:53 AM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: marriage equality, law, state:MA, state:RI

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