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Under the circumstances, they were not going to spend the money on hiring counsel to complete a divorce proceeding unless they were married.

I have a friend who is trying to get out of a lesbian marriage.

Part of the problem (and what is making her lawyer rich) is you can't get a divorce if you aren't legally married. She was. Then the law changed and she retroactively wasn't, except she legally still is, even though she wasn't and was...

2,373 posted on 07/08/2008 9:22:05 AM PDT by null and void (every Muslim, the minute he can differentiate, carries hate of Americans, Jews & Christians - OBL)

I have a friend who is trying to get out of a lesbian marriage.

Off the cuff, not knowing what the facts are, that also reflects usual marriage law. The law tends to uphold the marriage as valid between the parties (until terminated by a legal proceeding) or between one of the parties and another person whose rights would be adversely affected by reliance on validity of a marriage which either didn't exist or is subject to some legal flaw.