Court: Texas can't stop gay divorce that's granted

The Texas attorney general can't block a divorce granted to two women who were legally married elsewhere, an appeals court ruled Friday.

A judge in Austin granted a divorce last February to Angelique Naylor and Sabina Daly, who were married in Massachusetts in 2004 and then returned home to Texas.

A day after the divorce was granted, Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott filed a motion to intervene in the case, arguing the judge didn't have the jurisdiction to grant the divorce because Texas has a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The judge ruled that the attorney general's motion wasn't timely, a decision Abbott then appealed.

Court: Texas can't stop gay divorce that's granted