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Divorce isn’t the happy topic same-sex marriage advocates want to broach as they work to legalize such marriages across the country.

But legal experts foresee the fallout from child custody and property disputes among gay couples will compel courts to address gay unions — including in states that don’t allow same-sex marriage.

“A lot of it is going to be really messy,” said Douglas Nejaime, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “The realities of these families are going to be something the courts can’t ignore.”

The biggest problem: the federal and state courts are operating on different tracks, Nejaime said.

via Patchy laws complicate realities of gay divorce | The Desert Sun | MyDesert.com.