AUSTIN (February 17, 2010)-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is arguing that divorce, like marriage, according to Texas law, is reserved solely for a man and a woman.

A state district judge in Austin granted a divorce last week between Sabina Daly, of San Antonio, and Angelique Naylor, of Austin.

The two were married under Massachusetts law in 2004.

A day after the judge’s decision, Abbott filed a motion to block the divorce before it was entered into the official record.

Abbott told the San Antonio Express-News that the marriage was not valid in Texas, and therefore neither is the divorce.

Daly’s attorney Bob Luther told the newspaper that Abbott's motion will cost his client and her former spouse a lot of unnecessary expenses.

Naylor told the Austin American-Statesman that the divorce brought peace to the family.

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