Unmarred Texas lesbians want Texas divorce

Here is the latest LGBTQIA gripe about family law:

Divorce law out of sync with same-sex marriage

By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Cori Jo Long, 31, and Brooke Powell, 30, did everything right before they married. They fell in love slowly, based on years of friendship stretching back to high school. They planned their nuptials carefully for about a year, choosing to travel from Texas to New Hampshire in 2010 as same-sex marriage spread.

No they did not do everything right. That is like saying:

The dope-smoker did everything right. He started smoking dope in high school, and traveled to Colorado to get some legal dope. But when he took it back to Texas, he was not allowed to smoke it.

The lesbians main complaint is that they don't want to go back to New Hampshire for the divorce:

Sadly, bad times set in three years later, but uncoupling has proven far more difficult. The two women are now trapped in a state of bitter, desperate "wedlock," an emerging antithesis to same-sex marriage victories for those who want to divorce but can't find a way around legal snarls that prevent it.

Texas doesn't recognize the marriage of Long and Powell, and a judge there ruled recently he had no jurisdiction to either void the union or formally grant a divorce.

"It's hard to feel like you don't exist, like you're invisible under the law," Powell said by phone from Fort Worth, Texas.

Added Long: "It's a limbo. It's waiting and seeing. That's all I can do."

Why do they even want a divorce? They live in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage, so they are not married under the law. They could each marry a Texas man without the divorce. Any they cannot marry another lesbian anyway.

Sadly, bad times set in three years later, but uncoupling has proven far more difficult. The two women are now trapped in a state of bitter, desperate "wedlock," an emerging antithesis to same-sex marriage victories for those who want to divorce but can't find a way around legal snarls that prevent it.

Texas doesn't recognize the marriage of Long and Powell, and a judge there ruled recently he had no jurisdiction to either void the union or formally grant a divorce.

"It's hard to feel like you don't exist, like you're invisible under the law," Powell said by phone from Fort Worth, Texas.

Added Long: "It's a limbo. It's waiting and seeing. That's all I can do."

This is news to me. Nevada is famous for having easy heterosexual divorces, but I did not know that California had gotten into the business of easy homosexual divorces.

"It's all very challenging for people," Sakimura said. "If people have adopted, for instance, then they can just file a separate custody action in their state as an unmarried couple after they divorce, but for people who have not, they may find themselves in a situation where one parent is not going to be recognized. It can be a huge problem."

They act as if this is some LGBT problem, but it is not. In all states, as far as I know, a step-parent has no child custody rights unless he or she adopted the child.

The main point of this AP article seems to be to push for some sort of national marriage law reform that makes life easier for the LGBT crowd. Top priority is for lesbians to gain stronger rights to non-biological kids, cutting dads out of the picture.