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Article: For Gay Couples, Civil Unions Tougher To Undo Than Create; State Law Requires Partners' Return to Vt.
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- The Washington Post
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- November 28, 2002
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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 ...