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Henderson v. Box was a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate. The case was brought before the court by eight lesbian couples from Indiana who conceived through artificial insemination. [1]
The Indiana Code in book form. The Indiana Code is the code of laws for the U.S. state of Indiana. The contents are the codification of all the laws currently in effect within Indiana. With roots going back to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the laws of Indiana have been revised many times.
The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the "banns" or "bans" / ˈ b æ n z / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.
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"The Constitution of the State of Indiana" (PDF). Indiana: State of Indiana. 1851. Thornbrough, Emma Lou (1995). Indiana in the Civil War Era 1850–1880. The History of Indiana. Vol. III. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. ISBN 0871950502. Thornbrough, Emma Lou (1993). The Negro in Indiana Before 1900: A Study of a Minority. Bloomington ...
A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall recognize any marriage contracted in any other jurisdiction which is not the union of one man and one woman. Louisiana Civil code; Article 89. Impediment of same sex
The Convention on the issue of multilingual and coded certificates and extracts from civil status records, signed in Strasbourg on 14 March 2014, is an update to the convention of 1976, to extend its provisions to documents acknowledging parentage, registered partnership and same-sex marriage, electronic transmission of documents, specify the ...
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.