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| First gay divorce turns ugly |
| 2006-06-27 |
| Rantburg, bringing you all the human interest and animal stories fit to print. Although some are of questionable taste. A YEAR after legalising gay marriage, Spain is now seeing its first gay divorce, complete with a custody fight over the couple's dogs. The claimant is asking for the right to stay in the marital home and to take custody of their pets. The suit added that his ex-partner would be granted visiting rights to see the animals, a report on the website of newspaper El Mundo said. Council officials said divorce proceedings were private and would only confirm that the unnamed men were married in a Madrid suburb last October, three months after Spain became the fourth country to legalise same-sex marriages. The claimant said in a petition that he had dedicated his life to the relationship, giving up a modelling career and abandoning his dog hairdressing business to follow his partner who had found work in France. Some 1300 gay weddings have now taken place in Spain. The marriage legislation gives same-sex unions the same status as heterosexual ones, including inheritance rights and adoption, a plan that drew hundreds of thousands of Spaniards into streets to march both in favour and against. Meanwhile a steep rise in divorces has increased yet further since a new divorce law was introduced last year. In 2005, 150,000 marriages were dissolved, compared with 83,000 in 1995. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #11 I'm sorry, but the only gay divorce case I want to know about involves Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-06-27 23:23 |
| #10 IIRC France's first civil unions ended up quite quickly in separation (apparently, male homosexual relationships are not rock-solid), and France's first homosexual marriage, pronounced by leftist fiend green mayor Noël Mamère, ended up in farce, declared void by justice, and with the "husbands" on the run from police for swindling an elderly lady to pay for the marriage's expenses. Hé hé. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-27 16:13 |
| #9 L.O.D., that's not the worst kind of domestic violence. When lesbians decide to fight it out, that can be vicious. Women fight dirty. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-06-27 15:14 |
| #8 "First gay divorce turns ugly" Gee, maybe homosexual marraige is just like the heterosexual kind. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-06-27 14:30 |
| #7 Ever watch two gay men fight over another lover? Had to call police once while driving through S. Beach and witnessing a gay-spat. |
| Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-06-27 12:31 |
| #6 Who was it that said he was in favor of gay marriage - they should be free to suffer just like the rest of us? |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-06-27 12:25 |
| #5 And we all know how lucrative the dog hairdressing business can be... Depends on the venue. If it's a local grooming shop, it's gonna take capital and time to rebuild since grooming businesses rely on customer loyalty a lot and he's given up his customer base. No comment on the modeling thing .... |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-06-27 09:29 |
| #4 I'm sure they can find a Chinese restaurant in Spain. Just take the couple to a sit down dinner to talk it over - Pooch. |
| Posted by: Elmert Jinetle8240 2006-06-27 09:15 |
| #3 Excuse me, I'm going to go throw up now. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-27 09:08 |
| #2 So the divorce is actually uglier than the marriage? |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-06-27 08:32 |
| #1 The claimant said in a petition that he had dedicated his life to the relationship, giving up a modelling career and abandoning his dog hairdressing business And we all know how lucrative the dog hairdressing business can be... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-27 08:06 |