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Some Minnesota counties announced plans to make marriage licenses available as early as June 6. [33] The law took effect on July 1, 2013, and Minnesota has recognized the validity of same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions since then. The state began issuing its own marriage licenses to same-sex couples on August 1, 2013. [34]
McConnell and Baker applied [16] for a marriage license. [62] After the Clerk of District Court refused their request, they filed a "motion for the issuance of a writ of mandamus to require . . . the Clerk . . . to issue a marriage license . . ." [63] Denial in the lower court [64] was affirmed by the Minnesota Supreme Court. [65]
State voters rejected a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in 2012, and subsequently, the Minnesota Legislature passed legislation to open marriage to same-sex couples the following year, over forty years after McConnell and Baker had applied for a marriage license. Minnesota became the 12th state in the country to legalize same ...
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.
A marriage certificate is given to a couple who have married. Until the introduction of electronic registration of marriages in May 2021, copies were made in two registers: one was retained by the church or register office; the other, when the entire register is full, was sent to the superintendent registrar of the registration district.
On 18 May 1970, activists James Michael McConnell, librarian, [8] and Richard John Baker, law student on the Minneapolis campus [9] of the University of Minnesota, [10] applied for a marriage license in Minneapolis. Gerald Nelson, Clerk of District Court in Hennepin County, denied the request on the sole ground that the two were of the same sex ...
Michael McConnell and Jack Baker [3] [4] are the first same sex couple in modern recorded history [5] known to obtain a marriage license, [6] have their marriage solemnized, which occurred on September 3, 1971, in Minnesota, [7] and have it legally recognized by any form of government.
Exemplified certified copy of Decree Absolute issued by the Family Court Deputy District Judge – divorce certificate. A certified copy is a copy (often a photocopy) of a primary document that has on it an endorsement or certificate that it is a true copy of the primary document. It does not certify that the primary document is genuine, only ...