Same sex, different states : when same-sex marriages cross state lines /

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Must a state in which gay marriage is not legal recognize such a marriage performed in another state? Most of the commonly offered answers are wrong. The Constitution does not require recognition in all cases, but it does forbid states from nullifying family relationships based in other states, or m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koppelman, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation > United States > States.
Interstate agreements > United States.
Accords entre États fédérés > États-Unis.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Interstate agreements
Same-sex marriage > Law and legislation > U.S. states
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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