Divorce before marriage. (Court).A Judge in Washington State has granted a lesbian couple what amounts to a divorce, even though the state does not recognize marriage between same-sex partners. Yakima County superior court judge Heather Van Nuys ruled on November 1 that two women ending a 10-year relationship must divide their assets, saying that the relationship between physician Julia Robertson and nurse Linda Nurse Linda is a character in the American television series Nip/Tuck and Grey's Anatomy. She is a surgical assistant nurse for McNamara/Troy. She is portrayed by real life registered nurse Linda Klein. Gormley was "sufficiently marriage-like to provide equitable relief." Van Nuys called the couple's relationship an "intimate domestic partnership," allowing both women the same property rights given to a husband and wife in a divorce. State representative Ed Murray
Edward B. Murray said the decision to treat a same-sex couple A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. like a married couple is the first of its kind in the state. An openly gay member of the legislature, Murray told the Yakima Herald-Republic The Yakima Herald-Republic is a newspaper published in Yakima, Washington and distributed throughout the Yakima Valley. • • that Van Nuys's ruling is "fairly enormous." |
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