Pope Francis updated century-old church rules for annulling marriages, making them easier, and less expensive.
Being in my career with likeminded women, I see many happy marriages, lots of children and little infidelity.
And, just like marriages, business relationships take work to make them last over time.
The matter went to court and was initially upheld (though existing same-sex marriages were grandfathered).
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The commission also said that Afghan girls are often forced into marriages against their will.
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Lesbian couples in Beijing and Guangzhou were rebuffed recently for trying register their marriages.
Most commonly, couples with substantial assets or children from previous marriages consider postnups for protection.
There were 10.6 marriages per 1, 000 people in 1980, but only 6.2 last year.
Ten people have been arrested as part of a nationwide operation to target sham marriages.
Almost half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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After the raid in Texas, an FLDS spokesman indicated underage marriages would be discontinued.
The first legal clashes over how other states will handle Massachusetts' gay marriages are already brewing.
But other studies have played down gay marriages' potential benefits to state and federal coffers.
Not to mention countless lost jobs and productivity hours, failed marriages and children born with defects.
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The marriages are starting to get so glitzy even she is having trouble stomaching it.
Many of these marriages fall apart quickly as their partners are mentally not prepared for it.
The huge airline marriages have taken longer than expected to pay off, he says.
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Those three states follow community property law and recognize either same-sex marriages or domestic partnerships.
Many Hollywood marriages last barely long enough for the ink to dry on the marriage licenses.
The old Zulu traditions of strong marriages and healthy families had faded into obsolescence.
Mr Owen defended the wedding by saying it was "more scientific than most arranged marriages".
Under the plans, religious and belief bodies would need to "opt in" to perform same-sex marriages.
But surnames aren't reliable either, given the number of inter-marriages that occurred under Ba'ath Party rule.
But other states have passed laws or state constitutional amendments specifically banning such marriages.
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Geraldine Lynch (Dumfries) - For services to the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Most hostages survived their ordeal, Fletcher said, although relationships, marriages, and careers were often lost.
The colonial administration went as far as declaring marriages between southerners and northerners illegal.
Marriages among people who met at the East-West Center tended not to last long.
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In 1996, when Gallup first asked about gay marriages, 27 percent felt they should be valid.
We are seeing the miserable death throes of the fourth of your collective marriages.
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