Tag: divorce

Roncalli High School, a Catholic high school in Indianapolis recently made media attention after placing a long-standing an popular guidance counselor, Shelly Fitzgerald, on administrative leave. Her crime? Being married to a woman. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana's Superintendent of Instruction, was not pleased with Roncalli High School's decision, as the school enrolled 350 students through a voucher program, which is about $1.5 million in tax dollars. McCormick reasoning is that any school receiving public funds should not exclude anyone, Fox 59...

Researchers believe women have 'higher standards' for relationships than men Married gay male couples are the least likely to divorce and break up. Researchers have found same-sex male couples are twice as likely as not to break up as lesbians. Women in same-sex relationships are 1.5 times as likely as heterosexual couples to have broken up. Lesbian couples ‘most likely’ to break up A study following 515 couples in Vermont has found longer relationship length, older rage, and better relationship quality reduced the chances...

A Canberra couple who vowed to divorce if same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia have backed down on their promise. In 2015 Nick and Sarah Jensen said they would not want to be associated with any new definition of marriage if the law changed. “My wife and I just celebrated our 10-year anniversary. But later this year, we may be getting a divorce,” Mr Jensen wrote for Canberra’s City News. “The decision to divorce is not one we’ve taken lightly. And certainly,...

Andrzej Gruszczynski and Wiktor Twarkowski wed in Manhattan in 2013. A gay couple married in New York had to turn to the courts for a divorce after City Hall refused to end their marriage. Polish couple Andrzej Gruszczynski and Wiktor Jerzy Twarkowskix tied the knot at the Manhattan marriage bureau in December 2013. The couple came to the Big Apple from Warsaw as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s “NYC I Do” campaign, which invited gay tourists to wed if they lived in...

There were five times as many gay divorces in England and Wales in 2016 than in 2015 Same-sex female couples made up the majority of divorces in England and Wales in 2016. Out of the 112 divorces among same-sex couples, over three-quarters (78%) of them were among two women. A new Office of National Statistics report there were five times as many gay divorces in 2016 than in 2015, where 22 couples legally separated. In 2015, 12 female and 10 male couples divorced. Marriage...

As if our community didn't have enough problems, it seems some couples may have to divorce in a very bizarre twist of events across the pond in the U.K. and France. Per PinkNews, at least a dozen loving same-sex couples have been told that they need to get divorced if they want legal rights. It is a confusing and annoying legal tangle between the French and British governments. Take for instance Leandro Barreto and Francois Souyri, who are approaching their tenth...

The pair met twelve years ago and have six children together. Angelina Jolie has reportedly filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. TMZ reports that legal documents filed by Jolie cite irreconcilable differences between the couple. The date of separation listed by Angelina in the papers is September 15, 2016. The pair have been together since 2004 and got married in August 2014, despite promising to wait until after same-sex marriage was legalised across the US – which took place a year later in June...