[southern cross forever]

Just because she feels that he has been abusive does that give her the right to walk out, taking community property with her, and firing shots at him on her way out the door?

She "FEELS" that she has been abused because she had her teeth knocked out and she has black eyes,
and as far as the rest goes, you'd be shooting too if you were abused, whats wrong with that ? LOL

[labard1]

If one accepts the metaphor of an abused spouse having a right to depart a marriage with her own property (true in all community property jurisdictions), the issue is conceded. The other side denies ANY right to leave, regardless of provocation. The argument about taking community property and a parting shot are both logically red herrings.

The Federal government was funded primarily by a tariff on imports from Europe, which protected Northern industry and disadvantaged the South. It was well understood then that the tariff was a functional equivalent to a tax on exports of Southern cotton (it's a simple economic concept that no competent economist would dispute). The refusal of Northern police and juries to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act (notwithstanding its being lawfully passed by the US Congress), removed a major benefit promised to the South in the last attempt at a global compromise of North-South disputes.