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The Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed a district court ruling, allowing a same-sex couple to obtain a divorce in Niobrara County.

District Judge Keith Kautz of Niobrara County earlier dismissed the 2010 divorce petition of Paula Christiansen against Victoria Lee Christiansen for lack of jurisdiction.

The women were legally married in Canada in 2008.The Supreme Court opinion, written by Justice Michael Golden, made clear the court’s decision only addressed the divorce issue.

“Nothing in this opinion should be taken as applying to the recognition of same-sex marriages legally solemnized in a foreign jurisdiction in any context other than divorce,” Golden wrote in a footnote. “The question of recognition of such same-sex marriages for any other reason, being not properly before us, is left for another day.”

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