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The law took effect on December 6, and the first marriages were performed on December 9. Within a couple of days, more than 600 marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in King County alone. Washington was the seventh U.S. state, and the eighth U.S. jurisdiction (after the District of Columbia), to legalize same-sex marriages. [a]
Andersen v. King County, 138 P.3d 963 (Wash. 2006), [1] formerly Andersen v. Sims, is a Washington Supreme Court case in which eight lesbian and gay couples sued King County and the state of Washington for denying them marriage licenses under the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Under RCW 26.60.100 (4), the marriage celebration or automatic conversion from domestic partnership to marriage is deemed as legally effective on the date of the original domestic partnership registration: "For purposes of determining the legal rights and responsibilities involving individuals who had previously had a state registered domestic ...
Jan. 8—Child marriage is still legal in Washington, and on Monday state lawmakers moved along a proposed law to ban it. Today, children of any age can get married in the state. If they're 17 ...
Washington enacted a sterilization law in 1909, permitting "habitual criminals" to be forcefully sterilized. The only known person to be sterilized under the law was a (heterosexual) man in 1912 accused of statutory rape, though he was later found innocent of the crime. The law was amended in 1921, providing for the "possible sterilization of ...
Currently, 17-year-olds in Washington state can marry with parental consent, and those younger than 17 need approval from a judge. Oregon’s minimum marriage age is 17 while in Idaho the minimum ...
Chapter 2. The marriage relationship - Section 2.001. Marriage license. (a) A man and a woman desiring to enter into a ceremonial marriage must obtain a marriage license from the county clerk of any county of this state. (b) A license may not be issued for the marriage of persons of the same sex. Chapter 6.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Jack Baker and Michael McConnell (r), the first same-sex couple ever legally married in the United States (in 1971), at their Minneapolis home, 1970 Part of the LGBTQ rights series Legal status of same-sex unions Marriage Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile ...