fuzzis
07-23-2007, 03:50 PM
Man must pay alimony to wife despite domestic partnership (http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/23/alimony.partnerships.ap/index.html)
... California marriage laws say alimony ends when a former spouse remarries, and Ron Garber thought that meant he was off the hook when he learned his ex-wife had registered her new relationship under the state's domestic partnership law.
An Orange County judge didn't see it that way.
The judge ruled that a registered partnership is cohabitation, not marriage, and that Garber must keep writing the checks, $1,250 a month, to his ex-wife, Melinda Kirkwood. Gerber plans to appeal....
This is yet another reason why I think the state has no need to be in the marriage business, although I do find it funny. I'm not sure that folks anticipated these kinds of consequences when they started setting up the whole separate-but-equal doctrine as it relates to gay marriage. :kekeke:
... California marriage laws say alimony ends when a former spouse remarries, and Ron Garber thought that meant he was off the hook when he learned his ex-wife had registered her new relationship under the state's domestic partnership law.
An Orange County judge didn't see it that way.
The judge ruled that a registered partnership is cohabitation, not marriage, and that Garber must keep writing the checks, $1,250 a month, to his ex-wife, Melinda Kirkwood. Gerber plans to appeal....
This is yet another reason why I think the state has no need to be in the marriage business, although I do find it funny. I'm not sure that folks anticipated these kinds of consequences when they started setting up the whole separate-but-equal doctrine as it relates to gay marriage. :kekeke: