Chinese Court Orders Man to Pay Ex-Wife for Housework in Landmark Ruling
A Chinese man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost $8,000 for years of unpaid housework, in a landmark divorce case that has sparked furious debate in China.
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Common Law Marriage
The Colorado Supreme Court refined a test for proving common law marriage, holding that the core question is whether a couple intended to “share a life together as spouses in a committed, intimate relationship of mutual support and obligation.” The court wrote that the “gender-differentiated terms and heteronormative assumptions” excluded same-sex couples and many of the traditional features of marriage included in the previous test “are no longer exclusive to marital relationships.”
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Fight to Block Gay Marriage Trial Video Hits Ninth Circuit
Fighting to block the release of video of a landmark trial that overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a lawyer told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that a judge’s promise trumps the public’s interest in accessing court records.
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Indian State Outlaws Religious Conversion by Marriage
India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has approved legislation in the country’s most populous state that lays out a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religion.
Read moreSpousal Privilege
The New Mexico Supreme Court retracted a ruling that abolished a spousal communications privilege in finding that the prohibition against witnesses testifying in court about what their husband or wife told them in private conversations must be reinstated. The rule should be the “subject of comprehensive and robust public discussion,” the court found.
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Vatican Breaks Silence, Explains Pope’s Civil Union Comments
The Vatican says Pope Francis’ comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but still confirmed Francis’ belief that gay couples should enjoy legal protections.
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Plot Thickens Over Origins of Pope’s Civil Union Endorsement
Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
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Hong Kong Gay Couples Win Legal Victory Over Inheritance Law
Hong Kong’s high court on Friday ruled that same-sex couples should receive equal treatment under inheritance law, in a step forward for LGBT rights in the finance hub.
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Less Than 1 Million Gay Couple Households in US in 2019
In 2019, there were slightly less than 1 million same-sex couple households in the U.S., and a majority of those couples were married, according to new figures the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.
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Thailand’s King Reconciles With Ousted Consort
Thailand’s king has reconciled with his royal consort, whom he stripped of her titles last year after accusing her of seeking to undermine his official wife, the country’s queen.
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Virus Despair Forces Girls Across Asia Into Child Marriage
Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone.
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Outcry in Somalia as New Bill Would Allow Child Marriage
An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.
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‘IS Bride’ Wins Right to Return to UK to Fight for Citizenship
A woman who had her UK citizenship revoked after travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group should be allowed to return home to challenge the decision, a court ruled Thursday.
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German Court: US Woman Wrongly Denied German Citizenship
Germany’s highest court said Wednesday it has ruled that an American woman whose Jewish father fled Nazi Germany was wrongly denied German citizenship because she was born out of wedlock.
Read moreSatanist’s Suit
A self-proclaimed Satanist who participates in “sex magick rituals” lost his second suit challenging Illinois laws prohibiting adultery, fornication and bigamy. The man could not show a “reasonable fear of prosecution” under the adultery and fornication statutes, the Eighth Circuit ruled, and his bigamy claim is barred by Supreme Court precedents.
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Awww! Russian Soldier Proposes With Tanks
A Russian soldier has pulled out all the stops to propose to his girlfriend, with his fellow officers maneuvering 16 tanks to surround the couple in a heart shape.
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Pope Backpedals on Married Priests in the Amazon
Pope Francis declined Wednesday to approve the ordination of married men to address the shortage of priests in the Amazon, sidestepping a fraught issue that has dominated debate in the Catholic Church and involved retired Pope Benedict XVI.
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Feds Blocked From Using Marriage Interviews for Deportation
Immigration advocates expressed cautious optimism Monday after a judge in Maryland blocked federal agents from detaining immigrant spouses for deportation at green card marriage interviews.
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