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Texas Appeals Court Hears Gay Divorce Appeal
A lawyer for a Dallas man trying to divorce the man he married in Massachusetts told a Texas appeals court that his client is entitled to a divorce because he had a valid marriage.
Reporter: Micah T. Williams, KWTX Staff Writer Email Address: micah.williams@kwtx.com |
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DALLAS (April 22, 2010)-A lawyer for a Dallas man trying to divorce the man he married in Massachusetts told a Texas appeals court that his client is entitled to a divorce because he had a valid marriage.
Attorney Jody Scheske, who represents a man listed in court records only as "J.B.," told a three-judge 5th Texas Court of Appeals panel in Dallas that the judge who granted the divorce "has the right to hear divorces from people who have valid marriages."
But Jimmy Blacklock, an assistant Texas solicitor general, argued the men's marriage is not recognized by Texas and can only be declared as having never happened.
The state is also appealing after an Austin judge this spring granted a divorce to two women.
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AP Reports contributed to this story
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This is not about marriage nor divorce. It's about forcing the acceptance of homosexuals!
Oh stop wasting tax dollars. By now you have paid enough in attorney fees to have flown to Mass several times to get the divorce there. It's already been stated, and is Texas law, that your marriage is not recognized here. You knew that when you had to go somewhere else to get married. Stop wasting the judge's time and taxpayer money. Just goes to show, marriage ain't all it's cracked up to be....
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