Massachusetts clerks previously told to ignore marriage eligibility law
Governor Mitt Romney has ordered city and town clerks in Massachusetts to enforce a 1913 law that requires marriages performed in the state to be legal in the parties' home state, as well. But state records show that clerks usually ignore those rules. In fact, Department of Public Health documents provided to The Boston Globe show that the state repeatedly instructed the clerks to facilitate marriages, rather than enforce laws that might prohibit them, such as the residency requirement. Some of the documents, the Globe reported on Wednesday, explicitly instruct clerks not to check on marriage applicants' legal status and residency.
Sarasota Herald Tribune
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