Feb 6, 2009 5:08 pm US/Eastern
Judge Grants Permission For NJ's 1st Gay Divorce
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ―
A judge has broken legal ground in New Jersey by granting permission to a lesbian couple married in Canada to divorce in New Jersey.
Judge Mary Jacobson says New Jersey has a long history of recognizing marriages that are valid in the country or state where they are performed.
The state Attorney General's Office has argued that the union of La Kia Hammond of Trenton and Kinyati Hammond of New Castle, Del., should be dissolved instead as a civil union -- the New Jersey institution that gives gay couples the legal benefits of marriage.
La Kia Hammond says she needs a divorce that would be recognized in Canada so she can marry another woman there.
Her lawyer says that a civil union dissolution might not be sufficient in Canada.
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