Gay Marriage and Gay Divorce

Alongside marriage rights also comes divorce rights, too --right?

It seems that it isn't so easy. The Associated press recently published an article about the efforts of many gay couples to acquire divorce. Apparently this can be somewhat of a difficulty given technicalities surrounding marriage and divorce laws in different states.

Here is a brief excerpt from the article:

"'We all know people who have gone through divorces. At the end of that long and unhappy period, they have been able to breathe a sigh of relief,' said Cassandra Ormiston of Rhode Island, who is splitting from her wife, Margaret Chambers. But 'I do not see that on my horizon, that sigh of relief that it's over.'

Gay couples who still live in the state where they got hitched can split up with little difficulty; the laws in those states include divorce or dissolution procedures for same-sex couples. But gay couples who have moved to another state are running into trouble. "

You can read the whole article here.