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Governor Fife Symington, whose victory in the 1994 election was based in part on campaigning against his opponent's, Eddie Basha Jr., support for same-sex marriage, [3] signed the bill into law. [4] Arizona statutes still contain a same-sex marriage ban, as well as a ban on recognizing same-sex marriage that are contracted outside of Arizona.
State law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, but only if the parents are married. [18] In September 2017, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled unanimously that same-sex spouses have the same parental rights as opposite-sex spouses under state law. Basing their ruling on ...
Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years).
Arizona Proposition 102 was an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of Arizona adopted by a ballot measure held in 2008. It added Article 30 of the Arizona Constitution, which says: "Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state."
Same-sex marriage is currently legal in all states and the District of Columbia through the landmark 2015 ruling Obergefell v. Hodges. But activists, concerned about the power of the Supreme Court ...
Continue reading → The post Arizona Divorce Laws appeared first on SmartAsset Blog. Marriage is supposed to be forever, but reality sometimes intervenes, and divorce becomes the only option. ...
(a) All laws of this State applicable to marriage or married spouses or the children of married spouses, whether derived from statutes, administrative rules or regulations, court rules, governmental policies, common law, court decisions, or any other provisions or sources of law, including in equity, shall apply equally to same-gender and ...
To recognize a common law marriage, the SSA first requires that the couple does have a valid common law marriage according to their state’s laws. This varies from state to state, but generally ...