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IN RE ESTATE OF ARAGUZ

No. 13-11-00490-CV.

443 S.W.3d 233 (2014)

In the ESTATE OF Thomas Trevino ARAGUZ III, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi Edinburg.

Rehearing Overruled April 15, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent Geoffrey Rutter , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Houston, for Appellant.

Chad P. Ellis , Ellis & Irwin, P.C., Richmond, W. Mark Lanier , Kevin P. Parker , The Lainer Law Firm, Houston, for Appellee.

Before Chief Justice VALDEZ and Justices RODRIGUEZ and LONGORIA.

OPINION

Opinion by Chief Justice VALDEZ.

After volunteer firefighter Thomas Trevino Araguz III died in the line of duty, his mother, Simona Longoria, filed this suit to declare his marriage to Nikki Araguz void as a matter of law on the grounds that it constituted a same sex marriage.1 See TEX. CONST. art. I, § 32(a) ("Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman."); TEX. FAM.CODE...

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