文档介绍：Opening Civil Marriage to Same-Gender Couples: herlands-United parison
Nancy G. Maxwell Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, USA. The author wishes to thank Washburn University School of Law for funding the research of this article through an academic sabbatical; the Molengraaff Institute of Private Law and its faculty sponsor, Ineke de Hondt, Associate Professor of Private Law, Utrecht University, herlands, for ing the author as a visiting scholar; Kees Waaldijk, Lecturer in Law, Leiden University, herlands, for his thoughtful discussions during the research of this article; Caroline Forder, Professor in Private Law, Maastricht University, herlands, for her ments on earlier drafts, and William Petulla, Washburn Law School, Class of 2001 and Gerrit Diederick Maassen, the Molengraaff Institute of Private Law, Class of 2000, for their able research assistance.
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Abstract
This article examines pares the legal developments in herlands and the United States concerning the right of same-gender couples to marry. These two countries were selected for parison because herlands and some states in the United States appear to be on the verge of opening civil marriage to same-gender couples. However, the routes that each country is taking to this same destination e pletely different directions. For example, in both countries same-gender couples have filed lawsuits seeking to marry. In the 1990s, five different cases were filed in the ., and the judges in at least three of these cases have been receptive to the petitioners= attempts to obtain marital rights. I