• dartos@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t no-fault mean that either party can get a divorce for any reason?

    Am I misunderstanding what “no-fault” means here?

    • Misanthrope
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      1 year ago

      Maybe?

      From the Wikipedia:

      Fault-based grounds usually include mental cruelty, but true mental cruelty has a psychological component that can make it very difficult for the abused spouse to articulate that abuse. More to the point, the abused spouse may be terrified to describe the relationship on paper and testify about it in a court. And of course, a controlling partner will always choose the path of most resistance to whatever it is that the other spouse wants.[14]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce

    • CorrosiveCapital@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Read the article. Republicans are against no fault divorce, so they want the man to have to approve in order for his wife to divorce him. It’s a way to enslave women.