According to Alpert, the issuance of a marriage license is a mandatory prerequisite to a valid marriage in California and generally comes before the ceremony.
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The courts grant a divorce to mark the end of a marriage that was valid when entered into, whereas an annulment is for a marriage that at no time was valid (as when one of the parties was under the age of consent at the time of the marriage).
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In most places, a marriage is valid if the license was properly filed and the parties held themselves out as being married, even when the only qualification of the officiant was an Internet certificate of ordination.
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At the same time, a column in Sunday's Washington Post makes clear that those who believe the press tilts too far toward same-sex marriage have a valid point.
Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
First, couples have to prove that their marriage licence is not valid or that one person is, in legal terms at least, psychologically incapacitated.
If the justices hold that California's Proposition 8, which provides that "only marriage between a woman and a man is valid or recognized, " is unconstitutional, this will end the deliberations and impose a single national definition of marriage on us all.
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Roughly 18, 000 couples were wed in the nearly five months that same-sex marriage was legal and those marriages remain valid in California.
The "same sex marriage in which parties hereto participated is not valid pursuant to Maryland law, " the judge said.
The referendum, which gained 52% support, called for the state's constitution to be amended to include the stipulation that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised".
States have a valid role preserving culture and not undermining our heritage, but marriage reflects a sacred covenant before God.
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That was until 2012, when his home state of North Carolina added to the ballot a constitutional amendment referendum specifically banning same-sex unions and defining marriage between a man and a woman as the only valid domestic legal union in the state, even though same-sex unions had never been recognized in the state to begin with.
Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia also suggested DOMA could still remain in place as a valid extension of congressional authority, as 41 states do not allow same-sex marriage.
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