News from the BankruptcyProf Blog: With the recent news that the Justice Department has decided not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, on February 24, 2011 a same-sex California married couple filed a joint Chapter 13 petition in the Los Angeles Division of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Same Sex Couple Files Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in Los Angeles
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Homosexuals that claim to be married have not been allowed to file jointly administered bankruptcy cases in the past because federal law only recognizes a marriage between a man and a woman. Indiana just started the process to be one of the many states that have banned homesexual marriage.
How many states have passed a constitutional amendment stating the obvious that marriage is only between a man and a woman?