The marriage certificate appears unremarkable — another piece of government paper. But Mandy Havlik keeps a copy of it as proof of her past. It was issued by the state of Arizona in 1999, a week after ...

Sex with a child under age 18 is a crime in California — unless the adult marries the child first. Child marriage is not a gender-neutral problem. Nearly all underage marriage in the U.S. involves ...

In 2013, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling nullified California’s controversial Prop 8 — the voter approved state constitutional measure that officially defined marriage as between a man and a woman. But ...

California was close to ending child marriage, a human rights abuse that world leaders have vowed to eliminate by year 2030 to help empower women and girls. That was until Assemblymember Ash Kalra, ...

California, a U.S. trendsetter for progressive policies and a state where the current governor once made news issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco before it was legal, will ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015. So why are California voters voting whether to recognize marriages regardless of race and sex this November? Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, ...

Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the law expands what’s called a joint petition for summary dissolution to more couples who agree ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Twenty years ago, then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the city to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in what became known as "The Winter of Love." Now ...

SACRAMENTO — California, a U.S. trendsetter for progressive policies and a state where the current governor once made news issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco before it was ...