Williams v. North Carolina, Divorce Recognition, and Same-Sex Marriage Recognition
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Authors
Wardle, Lynn D.
Issue Date
1999
Volume
32
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|During World War II, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered two major decisions regarding interstate recognition of divorce decrees. In the more than fifty years since those decisions, they have come to represent the yin and the yang of interstate divorce recognition, the polar principles defining when states may and may not refuse to give full faith and credit to sister state divorce decrees, the parameters of state jurisdiction to enter divorce decrees that will be valid in other states. Both decisions involved the same parties, the same facts, the same states, the same disputes, the same case, and bear the same name, Williams v. North Carolina. They are commonly known as Williams I and Williams II...
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32 Creighton L. Rev. 187 (1998-1999)
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Creighton University School of Law