What effect does Prop 8 have on Gay Divorces?

[yodoobo]

I was thinking today that with so many people married under the provisions revoked by prop 8, that surely some of those marriages turned sour and the couple may have been in the middle of a divorce.

What happens to those couples that were in the court system seeking an equitable distribution and dissolution of the marriage? Does the court lose jurisdiction?

What if one member of the marriage was looking at unfavorable alimony or property distribution? Does other partner just get the shaft now that its as if the marriage never happened and now they lose their alimony or property?

Seems like couples in the middle of a divorce might have some constitutional complaints of their own that could be leveraged to fight prop 8.

[mondo joe]

1. Questions like this are exactly why a case ought to get to the SCOTUS and same-sex marriage

should be the law of the land.

The crazy patchwork of different marriage and civil union laws across the country is nuts.

[Betsy Ross]

2. Starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers! n/t

[TexasObserver]

3. Any gay marriage in California after the Supreme Court decision is legal.

Any couple married during the previous several months would therefore need to file for divorce, and NO, the courts have not lost jurisdiction of such cases.

Anyone married between the ruling and the passage of the resolution definitely have valid marriages. Thsose cannot be abrogated by the passage of prop 8.