A Suffolk County judge has joined a growing list of New York judges recognizing same-sex marriages contracted in other states.

Acting Supreme Court Justice John Kelly applied the state’s common law marriage recognition rule to grant the uncontested divorce between “S.M.” and “C.R.,” a lesbian couple who wed in Bridgeport, Conn., in July 2009. Connecticut legalized same-sex marriages in November 2008, but New York still does not recognize such unions within its own borders.

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