• Civil Unions in Connecticut

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:

• OLR Backgrounder: Effect Of Undissolved Civil Union on Subsequent Marriage - 2012-R-0409
  This backgrounder summarizes Elia-Warnken v. Elia, 463 Mass. 29 (2012), the case in which the Massachusetts Supreme Court invalidated a same-sex marriage because one of its celebrants was in an undissolved civil union when the marriage took place.

• Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health - 2008-R-0585
  You asked us to summarize Kerrigan v. Department of Public Health, 289 Conn. 135 (2008), the recent state Supreme Court case holding it to be unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.

• Summary of PA 05-10: An Act Concerning Civil Unions - 2005-R-0668

• Civil Unions & Gay Marriage Compared - 2005-R-0410

• Questions About Civil Unions Legislation - 2005-R-0354

• P.A. 09-13 - An Act Implementing the Guarantee of Equal Protection Under the Constitution of the State for Same Sex Couples. OLR Bill Analysis

  • To implement the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, provide for the recognition of marriages and relationships providing substantially the same rights, benefits and responsibilities entered into in another state or jurisdiction and provide for the merger of existing civil unions into marriages.
     

• P.A. 05-10 - An Act Concerning Civil Unions

Selected Statutes:

Chapter 815f. Civil Union

• Sec. 46b-38qq. Merger of civil union into marriage by action of the parties.

• Sec. 46b-38rr. Merger of civil union into marriage by default. Exception.

• Sec. 46b-38ss. Savings clause.

• #2008-019 Opinion Regarding Same Sex Marriages dated October 28, 2008

• #2008-018 Opinion Regarding Same Sex Marriages dated October 28, 2008

• #2005-009 Opinion Regarding Same Sex Marriages dated April 13, 2005

• #2004-006 Opinion Regarding Same Sex Marriage dated May 17, 2004