On 23 May 2016, an amparo was granted to two women who sought the right to marry. In November 2016, a federal judge granted another amparo to a same-sex couple. The judge declared article 43 of the Regulatory Law of the Civil Registry and article 124 of the Civil Code unconstitutional, stating that it was obligatory that those two articles be altered to provide for same-sex marriages. In January 2017, a federal judge threatened deputies of the Congress of Tamaulipas with 100-day fines should they continue to refuse to legalize same-sex marriage. By November 2018, 19 same-sex couples had married in Tamaulipas via the recurso de amparo remedy.
