Colorado Sex Laws
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Last update: 9/7/2014
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2013: Since May 1, 2013 civil unions are available for "any 2 adults", when a law was passed by the Colorado Legislature and signed by the Governor.
2009: Since midnight July 1, 2009 unmarried couples are able to enter a designated beneficiary agreement which will grant them limited rights, including making funeral arrangements for each other, receiving death benefits, and inheriting property without a will.[14]
On November 7, 2006, Colorado voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman only and defeated a referendum to allow same-sex couples to register domestic partnerships.
1975: Clela Rorex, county clerk of Boulder County, Colorado, allowed six same-sex couples to wed after receiving an advisory opinion from the district attorney's office indicating that the state's laws did not explicitly prohibit it.[15] A law was quickly enacted to prohibit same-sex marriages.
Texts :
COLORADO CONSTITUTION, Art. II, §31 :
Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.
COLORADO REVISED STATUTES §14-2-104 :
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, a marriage is valid in this state if:
(a) It is licensed, solemnized, and registered as provided in this part 1; and
(b) It is only between one man and one woman.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 14-2-112, any marriage contracted within or outside this state that does not satisfy paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall not be recognized as valid in this state.
No marriage license or recognition of same-sex marriage. However certain/few rights are granted to domestic partners through a designated beneficiary agreement since 1 July 2009. Since May 1, 2013 civil unions are available for "any 2 adults", when a recently passed law got passed and signed by the Colorado Legislature and the Governor.
From:
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/marriage-rulings-in-the-courts
Burns v. Hickenlooper
7/9/14 • Federal Court Ruling
Federal court decision declaring that same-sex couples in Colorado have the freedom to marry and that marriages legally performed in other states must be respected. Ruling stayed until August 25, pending further action by defendants in Colorado.
Brinkman v. Long & McDaniel-Miccio v. Colorado
7/9/14 • State Court Ruling
State court decision declaring that same-sex couples in CO have the freedom to marry and that marriages legally performed in other states must be respected. Ruling stayed pending appeal to Colorado Supreme Court.
TITLE 14. DOMESTIC MATTERS
MARRIAGE AND RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN
ARTICLE 2.MARRIAGE AND RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN
PART 1. UNIFORM MARRIAGE ACT
C.R.S. 14-2-110 (2014)
14-2-110. Prohibited marriages
(1) The following marriages are prohibited:
(a) A marriage entered into prior to the dissolution of an earlier marriage of one of the parties, except a currently valid marriage between the parties;
(b) A marriage between an ancestor and a descendant or between a brother and a sister, whether the relationship is by the half or the whole blood;
(c) A marriage between an uncle and a niece or between an aunt and a nephew, whether the relationship is by the half or the whole blood, except as to marriages permitted by the established customs of aboriginal cultures.
(2) Children born of a prohibited marriage are legitimate.
HISTORY: Source: L. 73: R&RE, p. 1019, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 90-1-10.L. 78: (1)(b) amended, p. 262, § 47, effective May 23.L. 93: (1)(a) amended, p. 438, § 4, effective July 1.
Not Prohibited: TITLE 14, Art. 2, Part 1, 14-2-110