sentences:  Later, the couple discovered that their marriage had been dissolved because the couple became a same-sex couple, even though they did not ask a civil court to divorce.The law prescribes that when a transsexual person is married to another person the couple should divorce, but in the case of the transgender woman mentioned above (Alessandra) and her wife, there was no will to divorce.The couple asked the Civil Court of Modena to nullify the order of dissolution of their marriage.