This week, a judge in Denver finalized Colorado’s first gay divorce, the Associated Press reports.
Colorado does not wed gay couples, but in May passed a bill recognizing civil unions. As a component of that law, the state agreed to allow gay couples to divorce even if they entered into their unions outside the state.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported earlier this month that soon after Colorado lawmakers passed the bill legalizing civil unions, seven gay couples filed for dissolution of their marriages. Juli Yim was one of the first in line at her local county clerk’s office to begin the process of ending her marriage to Lorelei Jones.
Yim and Jones exchanged their vows in Massachusetts back in 2009, but the “relationship went sour fast,” Yim says.
Yim told The Coloradan that she had wanted to legally separate from Jones for some time. “I have been trying for years to take care of this but have not had an opportunity to live in a state that allowed that.”
After Yim’s relationship with Jones fizzled, she did not stay single for long. She reconnected with high school friend Suzie Calvin. Calvin had been married for 22 years to her husband and had two children with him. After two decades of marriage, Calvin admitted that she was a lesbian and filed for divorce.
Kyle Martelon, a Denver attorney, told The Colorodan that many people have misconceptions about the law. “A lot of people kind of think if they went on vacation to Iowa or Massachusetts or New York and got married and came back to their state, that when they break up they can just go their separate ways,” Martelon said. “But it’s not like that
Same-sex marriage is not legal is all states, making the incidence of gay divorce difficult to measure.
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