Gay marriage is legal because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But if that ruling were overturned, same-sex marriage would be ...

Michigan’s marriage ban was challenged in federal court in a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Dana Nessel, then an attorney in private practice representing the plaintiffs in DeBoer v. Snyder.

Michigan long has argued that a single judge should not drown out the will of 2.7 million voters, 60%, who in 2004 decided that marriage is only to be between a man and a woman.

DETROIT -- A U.S. District Court judge is expected to issue a ruling, as early as Wednesday, on whether Michigan's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution.

Michigan currently has no minimum age to get married. Sixteen and 17-year-olds can get married with a parent’s permission. Younger children can get married with the permission of a judge.

Same-sex marriage and civil unions would be banned and invalidated in Michigan if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

Believe it or not, child marriage is still legal in Michigan. Between 2000 and 2021, more than 5,400 minors were married in Michigan, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Unchained at Last.

Snyder, challenged a 2011 law that took away domestic partner benefits for certain public employees. On June 29, Federal Judge David Lawson, of the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit, temporarily ...

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A federal judge says he will hold a trial before deciding whether to overturn Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman said Wednesday he won't ...

Same-sex weddings in Michigan were abruptly halted Saturday when a federal appeals court put on hold a lower court ruling that declared the state’s ban on gay marriages unconstitutional. The ...

MASON, Mich. — Two women were the first gay couple to marry in Michigan on Saturday, one day after the state’s ban on gay marriage, approved by voters in a landslide in 2004, was scratched ...