Posted on 03/13/2014 7:45:19 PM PDT by massmike
A judge ruled Wednesday that two women who were legally married in Iowa can’t divorce in Alabama, which doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages.
Circuit Judge Karen Hall of Huntsville issued a two-sentence order throwing out the uncontested divorce of Shrie Michelle Richmond and Kirsten Allysse Richmond.
Shrie Richmond filed the complaint this month saying the two were legally married in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2012. The suit said the two women, who are separated, no longer get along and want a divorce.
The other woman didn’t fight the divorce. But the judge’s decision said the case was being dismissed because laws in Alabama, which still prohibit same-sex unions, do not apply in such cases.
The Iowa Supreme Court overturned that state’s ban on gay marriages in 2009, and state law requires couples seeking a divorce in the state to live there for one year beforehand.
Attorney Patrick Hill, who represents Shrie Richmond, said neither of the women wants to move to get a divorce.
“They’re both from here in Alabama, and this is where their homes, family and friends are,” he said.
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Drop the lawyer. Take a road trip to Jamaica. Jump together over a stick backward. Voila. You’re single things.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m starting to regret not going to law school. In a field where Ben Crump, John Edwards, Michelle Robinson-Obama and Josh Saviano make a mint who know how well we’d do?
Yet the new faith is in man and liberals, who have no transcendent objective standard. But the nation that sanctions abomination is under condemnation, and is headed for damnation.
Well they never were MARRIED in the first place...
Amazing no state has the balls to just say ‘No”.
Take it to a higher court and push it. And if eventually the supremes rule against the state, let them enforce it. Eventually it will come to that. Might as well get it over with.
A ruse by the gays to get gay marriage legally recognized in all states. To grant a divorce requires the court to acknowledge that a legal marriage exists in the first place.
I have known a lot of lesbians - the security industry seems to attract them.
Their relationships go something like this :
Madly in love - happiest I have ever been - having sex anywhere and at anytime we can -
6 weeks later moved in together -
2 weeks later bought a puppy together - constant texting a professions of love -
6 months later - I hate that cheating effing wh#re, b*tch, sl*t - physical violence ensues - spends the next 2 years threatening and proving how much she hates the other one while having started and ended at least 2 other relationships in that time and running the same cycle - no wonder so many of them are depressed/suicidal.
Most states will divorce couples who couldn't legally get married in the state. Different states have different rules about the minimum age to get married and about consanguinity (whether you can marry your cousin), but if you want a divorce, usually the only question is whether you were legally married in the place where the ceremony took place.
seems like this judge has it right. How can the woman asking for a divorce have standing to seek the ‘dissolution’ of a marriage that doesn’t exist??
They are also a ball of joy to have in your family. doing exactly what you describe. And turning everyone’s lives upside down in the process.
I had an inlaw that fit that to a ‘T’. Oh and her GF was black in a largely white area so we got the ‘racist thing’ to go along with the rest of the drama..
They all want to be ground breakers.
If it meant enough for them to travel to get married, then traveling to get a divorce should be a no brainer.
They probably just got ‘married’ to make a point. Another POS ridiculing something so sacred to so many.
No worries, they don’t care what the judge says. Appeal to Supreme Court and have Kennedy (and his invisible 24/7 Constitutional convention) declare it legal, that is all they are doing, there are dozens such lawsuits in every state and they are basically racing to Supreme Court.
I am yet to see any state have the testicles to say no the Supreme Court. First step would be to stop taking earmarks from Washington.
I say they are stuck with each other. This is what they wanted, this is what they get.
I feel for ya Norm - it was so hard to keep up with who was with who and who hated who - but mostly the reasons for hate were that these people were not capable of monogamy or anything like faithfulness to one another and yet they want to get married? Well at least there will be more money and work for lawyers (like they need it) and more courts will have to be built to accommodate these revolving door relationships!
“but mostly the reasons for hate were that these people were not capable of...”
Yup. Mentally wrecked people do mentally wrecked things. No shock they had to infiltrate the APA and change their pathology to ‘normal’. Because they sure couldn’t do it any other way. And from that, nothing but disaster for everyone flowed.
For 5000 years it was a problem and suppressed. Now it can be treated. Which of course they don’t want. Like a drug addict or alky.
But it’s still a problem. It’s still a mental dysfunction. And eventually the pendulum will swing back. Perhaps forcefully. At no point in world history have so few held such power for very long. And history always repeats.
Vegas does drive through marriages. Some state needs to do drive through divorces. Make a mint...
That’s how I saw it. But that doesn’t get you the publicity you seek when you’re a mixed up, in your face, attention seeking homosexual activist.
Til death do you part.
Put em in the Octogon and let them settle the matter.
Makes perfect sense - can’t undo what is not legally recognized as having been done. Granting a divorce would start the ball rolling to legitimize what Alabama has declared illegitimate. Need more judges like this.
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