Article: For Gay Couples, Civil Unions Tougher To Undo Than Create; State Law Requires Partners' Return to Vt.

Arthur Tremblay and his male lover took their civil union vows before a Vermont justice of the peace last year, but that same night Tremblay's partner headed out to a nightclub and did not come home till dawn. The relationship deteriorated, the couple soon separated and their legal partnership -- one of the first of its kind in the nation -- became the first to legally end.

"I'm just barely getting over it now," said Tremblay, 47, an architect who lives in Burlington, Vt., where a family court judge granted the dissolution in April on grounds of adultery. "It broke my heart."

Other hearts are breaking, too, as some of Vermont's landmark civil unions begin to unravel, creating new legal ...

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