Mobile and Baldwin County News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama will require new forms for couples getting married beginning Aug. 29, according to guidance issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health. The change fundamentally restructures…
Baldwin County Probate Judge Tim Russell resumed issuing marriage licenses to all applicants after the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling.
A U.S. District Judge in Mobile postponed a hearing over whether Mobile County's probate judge must process a same-sex adoption petition.
A federal judge declined to lift her order requiring Mobile County's probate judge to comply with a same-sex marriage ruling despite state pushback.
After Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis recused himself from a same-sex adoption case, lawyers are fighting over who should name his replacement.
Mobile County probate records show several free Black residents petitioned local judges to become enslaved amid rising hostility before the Civil War.
Mobile County began issuing same-sex marriage licenses after a federal court order, drawing celebrating couples to the probate office downtown.
Baldwin County Probate Judge Tim Russell said he will stop performing any weddings, citing workload and moral objections, as Alabama began same-sex marriages.
A Mobile couple whose lawsuit helped overturn Alabama's same-sex marriage ban gathered with supporters as county probate offices awaited a final order.
With a proposed $30 vehicle tag fee shelved for now, Baldwin County officials explored other ways to pay for about $150 million in needed road projects.