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Source: McClatchey via Houston Chronicle , McClatchey via Sacramento Bee , Fresno Bee Boston -- Nearly five years after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the battle against marriage equality that brought international attention and apocalyptic...

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...

Source: Washington Post When her three-year-old marriage broke up, the 44-year-old doctor assumed she and her ex would split their property and jointly parent their two children. Her stay-at-home spouse wanted sole custody and the right to move the children out of Massachusetts. In pretrial motions,...

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...

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...

Source: Boston Globe The Boston-based legal advocacy group that helped make gay marriage a fact of life in Massachusetts is girding for a fight to expand the rights of same-sex married couples. For more than a year, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has quietly surveyed the nearly 10,000 same...