In a first-of-its-kind case, Connecticut Judge Linda Pearce Prestley has told two women seeking to annul a civil marriage they filed in Massachusetts that both states view their attempt to wed as legally void from the start. Prestley noted that the couple's Connecticut residency presented a legal impediment to Massachusetts' same-sex marriage law, so the attempted union was "not valid from its inception, but null and void, and, therefore, Connecticut has nothing to dissolve or annul."
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Court Powerless to Annul Same-Sex Marriage
The Connecticut Law Tribune
March 31, 2005
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