Even if a marriage is doomed, the trend in family law is to resolve the dispute out of court, typically through mediation.

而从家庭法的角度来说，即使婚姻已经毫无意义，仍倾向庭外解决争议，典型的方法是庭外调解。

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With little hope of getting a gay marriage bill signed into law in Albany, advocates marshaled forces for a court fight.

为了仅有的一点希望将同性婚姻法案写入奥尔巴尼洲法律，倡导者们聚集了全部力量与法庭抗争。

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"We would be so proud if Minnesota became the first state to reject a law defining marriage in terms of bigotry," added Jeff Wilfahrt on Wednesday night.

“如果明尼苏达成为第一个驳回歧视性婚姻法案的州，那么我们将会为此而感到无比自豪，”杰夫·威尔法特在周三晚上的采访中说道。

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Washington's city council in December approved a law legalizing same sex marriage.

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This mostly boils down to redefining marriage in law so that same-sex couples may contract it.

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Blatant discrimination in the shape of the Defence of Marriage Act enshrines in law that marriage is between a man and a woman.

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Even the business of catching adulterers in the act, once a dependable income stream for private eyes, dried up when a change to marriage law in 1973 meant the party seeking a divorce no longer needed to prove that a spouse had cheated.

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