Before No-Fault Divorce, there had to be a proveable “fault” like cheating or deatitution-causing gambling, and that cause had to be verified by a judge. There would be penalties on the party at fault I think.
If two people were just miserable together, or if one of them was, but a judge didn’t agree that one of them had violated the expectations of marriage sufficiently, then you were trapped.
Divorce that doesn’t require one of the parties to be proved in court to have committed adultery. Or some other acceptable reason, but in many cases that didn’t include a man beating his wife, and forcing her to have sex was not rape. There’s more than one movie from that era where the woman who wants a divorce has to hire a man to be “caught” in a hotel room with her, just so she can be free of her marriage. Quite a few others have women going to live in a women’s hostel in Nevada for about 8 weeks? in order to establish residency, so they can apply for a divorce under the more-relaxed Nevada laws.
What is no fault divorce?
Before No-Fault Divorce, there had to be a proveable “fault” like cheating or deatitution-causing gambling, and that cause had to be verified by a judge. There would be penalties on the party at fault I think.
If two people were just miserable together, or if one of them was, but a judge didn’t agree that one of them had violated the expectations of marriage sufficiently, then you were trapped.
Divorce that doesn’t require one of the parties to be proved in court to have committed adultery. Or some other acceptable reason, but in many cases that didn’t include a man beating his wife, and forcing her to have sex was not rape. There’s more than one movie from that era where the woman who wants a divorce has to hire a man to be “caught” in a hotel room with her, just so she can be free of her marriage. Quite a few others have women going to live in a women’s hostel in Nevada for about 8 weeks? in order to establish residency, so they can apply for a divorce under the more-relaxed Nevada laws.