06/19/2008
Boom: California Issues Massive Number of Marriage Licenses
The L.A. Times reports that more marriage licenses were issued the first day of same-sex marriage in California than in a typical June week:
"Just over 2,700 marriage licenses were issued in the state between 5:01 p.m. on Monday -- when the state Supreme Court's ruling lifted the ban on gay marriage -- and the end of business on Tuesday. The statewide average for a whole week in June is about 2,460. Topping the list is Los Angeles County, the state's largest with a population of about 9.9 million, which issued one license on Monday evening in Beverly Hills and 648 Tuesday. San Diego County, population about 3 million, was second with 230. San Francisco County, population 765,000 was third with 212. Officials in Sacramento County, which usually issues about 25 licenses a day, issued 134 by closing time at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The county has 1.4 million residents."
In Los Angeles County, records were set: "Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean Logan said yesterday that 648 marriage licenses were issued in Los Angeles County as of 5:00 p.m. on June 17, 2008. In addition, 279 couples held marriage ceremonies at the RR/CC headquarters and district offices throughout the city. Prior to the implementation of same-sex marriage licensing, the licenses issued per day during the month of June was 194."
The L.A. Times has created an interactive map with totals for each of the counties.
Posted 9:00 AM EST by Andy Towle in California, Gay Marriage, Los Angeles, News | Permalink
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Prediction: In less than a year there will be a massive number of divorces and the hate-filled will say "see, those homosekshuls shouldn't be married."
Posted by: JT | Jun 19, 2008 9:06:30 AM
Considering the community property, custody, etc... laws that CA has on the books, Gay Divorce can be quite a lucrative matter for the state! Oh, to be a divorce lawyer!
Day 3 and California still has not fallen into the ocean.
The geographic dispersal seems quite uniform. I hope that bodes well for the ballot initiative coming up in November.
Posted by: Rad | Jun 19, 2008 9:21:27 AM
While I have no doubt that there will be a number of divorces subsequent to the flurry, I suspect it will be less than the statistical first-year divorce rate for heterosexual couples.
Posted by: Iko | Jun 19, 2008 12:08:07 PM
Oh yaah, divorce lawyers are gonna be drippin' in money when it's all said and done but there will also be those precious few couples who try to make it last forever. They're the only ones I really care about.
Posted by: Chas | Jun 19, 2008 1:00:24 PM
Iko's probably right; most of these people who get married early on, as seen in Massachusetts, are people who have been together for a long, long time. They'll stay together, for the most part. The divorce rate will probably be similar for people who get married 6 months out from now, as all the long-term couples finally get officially hitched.
Posted by: Ryan | Jun 19, 2008 2:03:43 PM