Essay Archive - Divorce Litigation
Divorce Litigation
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 ecclesiastical court on the basis of some
wrong, such as adultery or abandonment, done by the defendant to the
plaintiff.
In the past, almost every state divorce law required the plaintiff
to prove one of a number of recognized grounds for divorce, included
adultery and desertion, even when both spouses wanted the divorce. The
divorce system also req....
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