A marriage license is usually the first stop on the road to marriage. But New York, curiously, does not always require the betrothed couple to have a marriage license and, under a hundred-year-old statute, permits some marriages without a license ...

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Through two decades of debate on whether America’s gays and lesbians should have the right to marry, opponents of such unions depicted their resistance as “defense of marriage.” Now, on the cusp of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could ...

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New York State Court of Appeals – Marriage – Half-Uncle and Half-Niece   Nguyen v. Holder No. 146 Judge Smith   Background: The Second Circuit certified a question as to whether a marriage between a half-uncle and a half-niece is void ...

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NEW YORK — The archbishop of New York says the Roman Catholic Church has to make sure that its defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gays. Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the church hasn’t “been too good ...

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The rights of traditionally married couples will not be afforded to same-sex couples who, beginning Sunday, will be allowed to marry in New York. Why they should or should not be was debated Wednesday in a hearing by the U.S. ...

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NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s successful push to legalize gay marriage in his state has made him a national hero to liberal voters and has sparked talk of a potential presidential bid for Cuomo in 2016. But Cuomo paired his quest for same-sex marriage with efforts to slash state ...

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Details still need to be understood, but new legislation would eliminate the need for couples in New York to blame one another should their marriage fail.

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