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Divorce Litigation
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Divorce is a judicially administered process that legally
terminates a marriage and permits both to remarry. Before 1857 in Britain,
freedom to remarry could be obtained only by an act of Parliament following
a separation decree given by an ec .... Middle of Term Paper
... during which the spouses had lived separate and apart. However,
even these few no-fault provisions were interpreted narrowly by the courts.
The realities of divorce litigation in the United States were
actually quite different from the legal requirements. In response to
social pressures, trial judges and lawyers often permitted spouses to
terminate their marriages with out proving grounds if both parties wanted
the divorce. Such divorces were obtained by having the plaintiff in effect
lie about the grounds without objection from the defendant.
A divorce reform movement took place in the early 1970's in the
United Kingdom ... |
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