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A Texas appeals court ruled Tuesday that a same-sex couple cannot get a divorce since the state does not recognize gay marriage.

“Texas law, as embodied in our constitution and statutes, requires that a valid marriage must be a union of one man and one woman, and only when a union comprises one man and one woman can there be a divorce under Texas law,” Justice Kerry P. Fitzgerald wrote in the opinion for the 5th Texas Court of Appeals.

The ruling was handed down to a gay couple, identified only as J.B. and H.B., who married in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal, in September 2006. The couple moved to Texas in 2008 and they ceased living together in November that year. J.B. filed a petition for a no-fault divorce.