Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines
Andrew Koppelman
Abstract
Must a state in which gay marriage is not legal recognize such a marriage performed in another state? The Constitution does not require recognition in all cases, but it does forbid states from nullifying family relationships based in other states, or from making themselves havens for people who are trying to escape obligations to their spouses and children. This book offers workable legal solutions to the problems that arise when gay couples cross state borders. Drawing on historical precedents in which states held radically different moral views about marriage (for example, between kin, very ... More
Keywords: gay marriage, state borders, state laws, gay couples, moral views, family relationships, same-sex marriage, Constitution, marriage
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300113402 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300113402.001.0001 |
