Texas Supreme Court upholds Austin judge’s grant of divorce to two lesbians

AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court has declined to overturn an Austin judge’s 2009 granting of a divorce to two lesbians who were married five years earlier in Massachusetts.

In a 5-3 ruling, the court on Friday said then-Attorney General Greg Abbott did not have standing to intervene in the couple’s divorce.

Abbott had argued that a Texas court can’t dissolve a marriage that the state doesn’t recognize. A voter-approved state constitutional amendment and the Texas Family Code prohibit same-sex marriages or civil unions.

Writing for the majority, though, Justice Jeffrey Brown said the attorney general did not move to intervene until the divorce was granted. That was too late, Brown wrote.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/texas-supreme-court-upholds-austin-judges-grant-of-divorce-to-two-lesbians.html/

[font color=330099]Add another notch to Greg Abbott's loss record since the attorney general's office failed to respond diligently when the case occurred. Greg is a bad attorney (with hat tip to Gothmog).
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