CA Recognizes Same-sex Marriages from Other
States
October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill
that recognizes same-sex marriages entered into in other
states, Business Insurance reports.
California itself has a mixed system of marriage after
the California Supreme Court in May upheld Proposition 8,
the voter-approved law restoring a ban on same-sex
marriages, but left intact the more than 18,000 marriages
of couples who wed last year when the high court originally
approved the unions (see
CA High Court Ruling Creates Mixed System
for Same-sex Couples
).
According to the news report, Schwarzenegger said in a
statement, "This measure honors the will of the people
in enacting Proposition 8 while providing important
protections to those unions legally entered into in other
states."
California follows New York, where last year the
Appellate Division of State Supreme Court decided that
same-sex marriages validly performed out-of-state must be
legally recognized, just as the law recognizes those of
heterosexual couples married elsewhere (see
NY Court Rules to Recognize Same-Sex
Marriages from Out-of-state
).
Rebecca Moore
editors@plansponsor.com