Meagan Metz and Natalie Metz

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Meet the Plaintiffs: Meagan Metz and Natalie Metz

Meagan Pugh was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and was raised in Seattle Washington. Natalie Metz was born in Indiana and raised in Mesa, Arizona. Megan and Natalie met through mutual friends in 2006 in the Flagstaff area. They started out as friends, dated first and in 2007 began a committed, exclusive and intimate relationship, the start of their life together.   On May 29, 2013, Meagan and Natalie traveled to the State of Washington where they were engaged and formally made their commitment to each other on a ferry boat to Bainbridge Island. Meagan subsequently changed her surname from Pugh to Metz as testament of her marriage commitment to Natalie. Meagan and Natalie want their family to grow and they wish to have children. Meagan and Natalie know they will have to plan for extraordinary measures to ensure their children have two legal parents. However they continue to struggle as an unrecognized married couple because the State of Arizona denies their marriage the same full recognition other opposite sex couples enjoy when they marry out of state and return to Arizona. Meagan and Natalie joined the lawsuit to ensure the future of their family and force Arizona to recognize their out of state marriage.   

References:

• Declaration of Meagan Metz (PDF)
• Declaration of Natalie Metz (PDF)
• The Press Kit with Photos
• All the Exhibits