Law Exempts Out-of-State Same-Sex Couples Who Married in California from Residency Requirement for Divorce

For a brief period in 2008, California was only the second state in the country (after Massachusetts) to grant marriages to same-sex couples. The law was quickly overturned by the passage of Proposition 8, however, and the issue was up in the air for years as Prop 8 wound its way through the judicial system…