[maryz]

More than a dozen states have introduced bills that required longer waiting periods for divorce, counseling courses for adults and have limited the number of reasons that people can file for divorce.
While this may seem like a fringe idea, . . .

Isn't this more or less the way it was everywhere before no-fault divorce became the way to go, in the late 60s IIRC?

[Mariner]

Remember the old show from the 60's "Divorce Court"?

Folks had to go into court to PROVE a wrong by the other party.

Giant "he said, she said" fest. Enormously expensive.

But it was not one sided. If a man could prove infidelity, drunkenness, neglect...he could avoid alimony and gain custody of the kids.

[Responsibility2nd]

Isn’t this more or less the way it was everywhere before no-fault divorce became the way to go, in the late 60s IIRC?

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You are correct. And even the liberals began to realize that a full frontal assualt on marriages by the State was a bad idea. Hence the Defense of Marriage Act signed by none other than the Adulterer in cheif himself; Bill Clinton.

Fast forward 20 years and we see a marital anti-Christ (Obama) has now struck down that law and is intent on removing any and all traces of traditional marriages from our laws.

And the bastard libertarians are supporting this.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Isn't this more or less the way it was everywhere before no-fault divorce became the way to go, in the late 60s IIRC?

I read an account once of a woman in New York in the early 1960s who put herself through college by being "the other woman" in amicable divorce cases that required cause. The routine was that she would go to a hotel, meet the wife and husband and the private detective. She and the husband would take off their clothes and get in bed, the private eye would take a picture, then they'd get dressed and all go out to brunch.