Sentences with phrase «couples in the eyes of the law»

It allows gay and lesbian couples to enjoy the same rights as straight couples in the eyes of the law.

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And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

Mud's charisma lies in the wide eyes of his beholders, a couple of 14 - year - olds who come upon him hiding out from the law and other pursuers on a little island in the Mississippi River; his literal hideout is an abandoned boat nestled high in the branches of a tree, where it was deposited by a flood.

The 2004 Act ended generations of inequality by giving same - sex couples not only the right to have their relationship recognised in the eyes of the law but also to equal rights with those of married couples regarding tax, property, death and other matters.

We often speak of divorce loosely, however, in the eyes of the law a divorce is only applicable to married couples.

The presence of children within a union can drastically affect the way a common law relationship is viewed in the eyes of the law, as cohabiting couples with a child are considered common law many years before their childless counterparts.

Many Muslim couples do not register their religious marriage, so that on breakdown of the marriage, or the death of one spouse, there is no possibility of obtaining a civil divorce or exercising their rights as a spouse, because they are simply not married, either in life or on death, in the eye of the law.

While it's progress for same - sex couples to be equal in the eyes of the law, a civil right step forward shouldn't equal a financial step backward.

However, in the eyes of the law, the couple is still married, which means that neither spouse is free to marry anyone else.

Couples publicly celebrated their unions with deeply cherished ceremonies while knowing they were not considered married in the eyes of the law.

Having never been married in the eyes of the law, no matter how many decades living as spouses, gay and lesbian partners must invent their own forms of matrimony, and negotiate different kinds of separations than straight couples.

Divorce is more than a legal process: Divorce is usually thought of as only a legal process in which couples hire lawyers, may go to court, and come out with a document (some paperwork) that officially ends the marriage in the eyes of the law.

Collaborative Divorce, using the Interdisciplinary Model, is beneficial for all couples who are separating, whether they are legally married spouses or same sex couples who are not married in the eyes of the law.