CSPAN Ohio Same-Sex Marriage Oral Argument August 16, 2014
Void in ohio . It depends. The way the courts undertake the choice of law analysis is to say outofstate marriage is only voidable, we will recognize it here even if it is unlawful here. That is the First Cousins marriage case. For other types of marriages, if the marriage would be deemed void, which ohio courts would take to mean commonlaw is not recognized and would not be recognized. The henry sales case, that was an instate ohio marriage, a commonlaw marriage. The court established the rule that it was absolutely void and the court would not recognize it. That void versus voidable is the di...