Indiana Appeals Court Says Spouse’s Gender Change Doesn’t Void an Existing Marriage

The Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled on December 20 that an existing different-sex  marriage is not rendered void when one of the spouses has obtained a legal judgment of gender change.  Reversing a ruling by Judge Valeri Haughton of the Monroe Circuit Court, Judge Paul Mathias wrote for the court in Davis v. Summers that this construction of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage would be “beyond the purview of our constitutional authority to … <Read More>