Furthermore, I think we tend to underestimate how detrimental no -
fault divorce actually is; repealing it would have ameliorative effects both culturally (say goodbye to the «two consenting adults» - theorists) and empirically.
Not exact matches
He explained: «By introducing a no
fault system - a genuine no
fault system, it
actually wouldn't make
divorce easier, it would
actually make it ever so slightly harder.
The supine acceptance by many churches of no
fault divorce makes the «I have become a Christian so it is all different now» defense appear implausible, even if it is
actually true in specific cases.
Actually, the Truth, it was less commitment than the fact that up until no -
fault divorce, it was really hard to
divorce.
The legal costs of
actually getting a
divorce vary a great deal as well, with some states allowing no -
fault divorces and others demanding more complicated proceedings to show some wrongdoing by one spouse.
Although New York was
actually the last state in the United States to adopt «no -
fault»
divorce, the court views the dissolution of a marriage as the dissolution of an economic partnership, meaning that it doesn't matter why the dissolution is occurring, only that each partner gets a fair share of the assets and debts.
Critics of the no
fault divorce laws here in the United States have long claimed that the ease of negotiating an uncontested
divorce process is just too easy and
actually encourages people to get
divorced.
When you think about
divorce, most people think that a
divorce is one person's
fault, and that there was a specific cause of the
divorce. But the causes of
divorce are never just one person's doing, and the event that triggered the actual
divorce filing is never the event that
actually caused the
divorce.