LE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Community Property, Child Custody, Life Insurance
13 Dec 2016
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Solemnized marriage: the couple has obtained a proper marriage license from local government and has taken marriage vows before 48 hours. Couple mutually agrees to enter into a relationship in which they accept all the duties and responsibilities that correspond to marriage. Hold themselves to the public as married for a certain amount of time. For equal treatment, sexual orientation discrimination, inheritance, child custody, benefits, adoption. Against man and women definition, religious values/ procreation, solution= make a contract. States do not have to recognize same-sex marriages from another state (since changed) Marriage on the federal level is between one man and one woman. Full faith and credit clause of the constitution loving vs. virginia. Obergefell v. hodges (2015) held yes, issue: must states recognize lawful same-sex marriages and, can states continue to define marriages as between on man and one woman . Initially courts would not honor them-thought to encourage divorce.
