"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
Thursday, September 16, 2010
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