Fight Over Gay Divorce Moves To Higher Court
Lesbian Couple Wed In Massachusetts
POSTED: 5:57 am EDT May 9,
2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A lawyer for a lesbian married in Massachusetts has asked Rhode Island's Superior Court for a divorce after an earlier attempt to dissolve the marriage failed. An attorney for Margaret Chambers asked the Superior Court on Thursday to dissolve his client's marriage after Rhode Island's top court blocked a divorce court from handling it. The judge did not immediately rule and scheduled another hearing for June 12. Chambers wed Cassandra Ormiston four years ago in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is legal. Rhode Island does not recognize same-sex unions.
In 2006, they filed for divorce in Rhode Island, where they live. Rhode Island's Supreme Court ruled in December that the state's divorce court cannot end the marriages of same-sex couples.
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