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Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years).
Arizona Proposition 102 was an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of Arizona adopted by a ballot measure held in 2008. It added Article 30 of the Arizona Constitution, which says: "Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state."
[9] [10] Unlike the failed Proposition 107, Proposition 102 did not ban civil unions. On June 17, 2013, Equal Marriage Arizona filed an initiative to place on the November 2014 ballot an amendment that would substitute a gender-neutral definition of marriage in place of the one added to the State Constitution in 2008. It needed to gather ...
Since the mid-1990s, three states have enacted covenant marriage laws which give couples the option to make divorce more difficult, Louisiana, [27] [28] Arkansas, [29] and Arizona. [30] For example, couples who choose covenant marriage may be required to undergo counseling before a divorce can be granted, or to submit their conflicts to ...
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The SSA recognizes a valid common law marriage in the same way as a traditional marriage. You just need to ensure that your common law marriage is established according to the laws of your state.
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Equality Arizona is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working on charitable, scientific, and educational efforts to promote LGBT issues. [4]Equality Arizona Advocacy Fund is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that engages in lobbying on LGBT policy matters.