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In the United States, proxy marriages are provided for in law or by customary practice in Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Montana. [19] [20] [21] Of these, Montana is the only state that allows double-proxy marriage. [22] Proxy marriages cannot be solemnized in any other U.S. states. [23]
Montana voters had adopted a constitutional amendment in November 2004 that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. [10] Similar restrictions appear in the state statutes. [11] The Montana Supreme Court recognized a common law same-sex marriage as retroactively valid in Adami v. Nelson on December 10, 2019. [12]
Initiative 96 of 2004 is a ballot initiative that amended the Montana Constitution to prevent same-sex marriages from being conducted or recognized in Montana.The Initiative passed via public referendum on November 2, 2004, with 67% of voters supporting and 33% opposing.
Same-sex marriage has been recognized in Montana since a federal district court ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on November 19, 2014. Montana had previously denied marriage rights to same-sex couples by statute since 1997 and in its State Constitution since 2004.
Constitutional bans on same-sex unions were advocated in response to the legalization of same-sex marriage in other jurisdictions, notably Canada and Massachusetts.. Some amendments and some proposed amendments forbade a state from recognizing even non-marital civil unions and domestic partnerships, while others explicitly allowed for same-sex unions that were not called "marriages".
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This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
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