If its cut to 6 months and 3 counseling sessions it could pass.
The Association of Divorce Lawyers is not amused.
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If a married couple is unhappy they should be allowed to proceed at whatever pace best suits their diverce-related needs. There’s no way that a spouse with one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel should be forced to attend a bunchof counseling sessions with the person they’re trying to leave.
More government intrusion will NEVER fix anything.
Counseling should be available to those couples that desire it, but never required of those that don’t.
Isn’t this the second time that you’ve posted this from your blog?
I hope it passes.
Perhaps a better idea is to only allow no-fault divorce for divorces that are 100% amicable, and bring back FAULT divorce so that other relevant circumstances (adultery, violence, blackmail, etc) can actually weigh in to how assets are distributed.
Interestingly, this sort of development was predicted in the book “The Fourth Turning.”
Just one more reason not to get married in the first place. Don't give the government more control over your life.
While the divorce rate is lamentable, all this does is guarantee that some poor ex-spouse-to-be will be shackled to someone who has decided they do not want to place their family ahead of their own particular self-destructive god for a year, be that meth, alcohol, child porn, or whatever.
Imagine discovering the spouse molesting the children.
Sometimes making the split swift and sure is best.
(Not to mention the social services industry here doesn't need more money for having someone who has never been married tell a couple how to live.
Government has no place in the Sacrament of Matrimony, except to record the union and the issue (at most) and this is a gross intrusion.
I don’t like divorce at all, but the government needs to back away from this. The track record of politicians when it comes to marriage is pathetic. Until they clean up their acts they have no business even suggesting this.