How is same-sex marriage dissolved?
There is no such concept as “same-sex marriage”. Rather, this is the common term. Chief Justice Ronald M. George clarified that the term is “marriage between same-sex couples.” While none of the same-sex couples recently married in California have yet to file for divorce, California has offered domestic partners the right to dissolve their partnerships since the legislature first enacted domestic partnership legislation in 1999. In the vast majority of cases, this process is identical to that of divorce. The sole exceptions are partnerships that are simple and uncontested, in which they have acquired no real estate, little joint property or debt, and no children or current pregnancies. The greatest difference arises when comparing the divorce of same-sex couples to divorce of heterosexual couples: the clash between state and federal laws. The federal government does not recognize the marriage between same-sex couples, nor the divorce of same-sex couples and imposes certain financial pe
