Thursday, September 16, 2010

No fault divorce sweeps the nation into...Insanity?

"In 1969, Governor Ronald Reagan of California ....  signed the nation’s first no fault divorce bill. The new law eliminated the need for couples to fabricate spousal wrongdoing in pursuit of a divorce; indeed, one likely reason for Reagan’s decision to sign the bill was that his first wife, Jane Wyman, had unfairly accused him of “mental cruelty” to obtain a divorce in 1948. But no-fault divorce also gutted marriage of its legal power to bind husband and wife, allowing one spouse to dissolve a marriage for any reason — or
for no reason at all.
"In the decade and a half that followed, virtually every state* in the Union
followed California’s lead and enacted a no-fault divorce law of its own."

*Now includes New York as of August A.D. 2010

quote from  The Evolution of Divorce

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