Same Sex, Different States When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines

Name: Same Sex, Different States When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines
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ISBN: 9780300113402

ISBN-10: 0300113404

ISBN-13: 9780300113402

Edition: 2006

Authors: Andrew Koppelman

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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. In this book, Andrew Koppelman 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,nbsp;between kin, very young individuals, and interracial couples), Koppelman shows which state…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.85" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



How We Got Here



Marriage, Choice of Law, and Public Policy



Miscegenation in the Conflict of Laws



The Stakes



Against Blanket Nonrecognition



Choice of Law Rules: The Options



When to (and When Not to) Recognize Same-Sex Marriages



The Irrelevance of Full Faith and Credit and the Defense of Marriage Act



The Difference the Mini-DOMAs Make



Toward Benign Competition


Notes


Index