On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in the matter of Obergefell v. Hodges (576 U. S. 644 (2015)). In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and recognize the marriage of same sex couples who were lawfully married in another state. In Ohio, which previously did not allow same-sex marriage, this meant not only a change in the laws surrounding marriage, but the laws surrounding divorce.
