The 5th Texas Court of Appeals declared Tuesday that a Dallas judge did not have the jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two gay men married in Massachusetts.
The Republican state attorney General Greg Abbott appealed the decision from October of 2009, when he released a statement saying, “The Office of the Attorney General will appeal the court's ruling to defend the traditional definition of marriage that was approved by Texas voters."
The case was argued before a three judge panel in April of this year. It was yesterday Justice Kerry P. FitzGerald issued an opinion to reverse Judge Tina Callahan’s original ruling that the two men, referred to as J.B. and H.B., would be granted a divorce rather than a voidance of their marriage.
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