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  Same Sex Marriage - Enabling Courts to Deal with Divorce or Annulment Proceedings
  
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  @ MP voted aye to enable the courts to deal with proceedings for the divorce of, or annulment of the marriage of, a same sex couple.
  @ MP voted no against enabling the courts to deal with proceedings for the divorce of, or annulment of the marriage of, a same sex couple.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to enable the courts to deal with proceedings for the divorce of, or annulment of the marriage of, a same sex couple and in relation to the recognition of judgements in respect of a marriage made in other European Union states. 
  
  
  The motion approved by the majority of MPs was:
  :That the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111108703/contents draft Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) Regulations 2014], which were laid before this House on 23 January, be approved.
  
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