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Outlook: The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

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08/06/2020 GMT

The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

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The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.

Jazmin Elizondo and Laura Flores Estrada were the first women in Costa Rica to have a same-sex marriage.

From 26th May 2020 same-sex couples have been able to marry for the first time in Costa Rica. Legislation ruling that a ban was unconstitutional has finally come into effect after eighteen months.  But there is one couple who managed to marry even before the ban was lifted. Jazmin Elizondo and Laura Flores Estrada wed back in 2015. They found a legal loophole.  Someone made a mistake on Jazmin’s birth certificate and noted that she was male. That small error enabled Jazmin and Laura to make history. 

After Jerry Selbee retired in 2002, he found a way to crack the lottery in the US state of Michigan. He and his wife Marge ended up making millions of dollars.

Credit: Jazmin Elizondo and Laura Flores Estrada

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