Victory! The MA Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor our our client, Richard Elia, stating that “a Vermont civil union must be dissolved prior to either party entering into a marriage with a third person in the Commonwealth.” The ruling further states that “We shall recognize a Vermont Civil Union as equivalent to marriage in the Commonwealth under principles of comity.”
https://www.glad.org/cases/todd-elia-warnken-v-richard-elia/