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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a spouse fails to perform the responsibilities of marriage — provides no emotional support, makes no financial contributions, refuses to have sexual relations — the spouse has abandoned the ...

Known as a popular Hollywood director, Rob Reiner also had a lengthy record of political and civic activism, especially in ...