Court Lacks Power To End Massachusetts Marriage

No Divorce For RI Lesbians

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Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston remain unhappily married. Rhode Island’s Supreme Court ruled 3-2 today not to dissolve the couples 2004 marriage:

[The Court] said the state’s family court lacks the authority to grant the divorce of a same-sex couple.

Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers wed in Massachusetts in 2004 after that state became the first to legalize same-sex marriages. The couple filed for divorce last year in Rhode Island, where they both live.

Perhaps the ladies should consider moving to Massachusetts for a few months.

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