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On September 8, 1850, California entered the US as the 31st state of the union. At the time marriage statutes described marriage as "a civil contract to which the consent of the parties is required" [9] with gender specific pronouns applied to "husband" and "wife". Later court decisions and some statutes dating from both statehood and the 1872 ...
The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) is one of 37 departments in Los Angeles County, California which serves a population of over 10 million.The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk is responsible for registering voters, maintaining voter files, administering federal, state, local and special elections and verifying initiatives, referendums and recall petitions.
Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker (1827–1912) was a wealthy Californio landowner and socialite of Los Angeles. She played an important role in the elite society of Los Angeles [1] and, later, Santa Monica. [2] She was married to two wealthy Anglo-American men over the course of her life, Abel Stearns and then Colonel Robert S. Baker.
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents.The resulting repository or database has different names in different countries and even in different subnational jurisdictions.
(Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times) Twenty years ago this month, Marcia Kadish and Tanya McCloskey exchanged wedding vows at Cambridge City Hall in Massachusetts and became the first same-sex ...
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The certificate lists the date of the marriage, and the full names of both spouses. Their ages are included (it is also permissible to write "full", meaning of age, and until 1850 some 75% of certificates said that; if the certificate reads "minor" or "under age", it means that, until 1929 when the law changed to 16, the bride was between 12 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 on Friday against a Los Angeles woman who argued that her constitutional rights were violated when the federal government denied a visa to her Salvadoran ...