An attorney for an Indiana woman who entered into a same-sex marriage in Canada says she plans to appeal a court’s refusal to grant the couple a divorce.
A Marion Superior Court judge earlier this month dismissed the couple’s request for divorce, ruling that state law doesn’t give courts the authority to dissolve same-sex marriages. Same-sex marriages are illegal in Indiana.
Larissa Chism and Tara Ranzy lived in Pennsylvania at the time of their 2005 marriage but had since moved to South Bend. Ranzy asked Indianapolis attorney Karen Jensen to handle the divorce that involved no children.
Jensen said Sunday that Ranzy had authorized her to appeal the court ruling.
Information from: The Indianapolis Star, http://www.indystar.com
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