IRELAND, C.J.
We transferred this case from the Appeals Court to consider a question reported by a judge in the Probate and Family Court: "Whether or not a Vermont civil union must be dissolved before either party to that civil union can enter into a valid marriage in Massachusetts to a third party." The matter came before the judge in the course of divorce proceedings between the plaintiff and the defendant, a same-sex couple who had been married in Massachusetts...
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