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I have mixed feelings. Having no fault divorce creates an easy-in/easy-out mindset and people marry in haste knowing they can get out of it whenever they like. This is especially hard on somone who DOESN'T want a divorce but who's spouse finds someone better and wants to trade up. Very few people today seem to think someone should stay in a marriage if they can be happier with someone else. If that is how we want to be then no-fault is definitely the answer. If we want to maintain the family unit then it's a disaster. It all comes down to that and I have to wonder, if no-fault IS what we want then maybe we should ask ourselves if marriage is something we want to keep or do away with altogether because all it does is create a tangled mess for the divorce lawyers to dig into. The next logical step from no-fault is no-marriage, every man/woman for themself. Right?
I have mixed feelings. Having no fault divorce creates an easy-in/easy-out mindset and people marry in haste knowing they can get out of it whenever they like. This is especially hard on somone who DOESN'T want a divorce but who's spouse finds someone better and wants to trade up. Very few people today seem to think someone should stay in a marriage if they can be happier with someone else. If that is how we want to be then no-fault is definitely the answer. If we want to maintain the family unit then it's a disaster. It all comes down to that and I have to wonder, if no-fault IS what we want then maybe we should ask ourselves if marriage is something we want to keep or do away with altogether because all it does is create a tangled mess for the divorce lawyers to dig into. The next logical step from no-fault is no-marriage, every man/woman for themself. Right?
While there would be some bitter irony in heterosexuals being denied the right to marry just as gays have been, the SCOTUS has held that there is a right to marry in Loving v. Virginia and Skinner v. Oklahoma, and both of those precedents would have to be overturned in order for the right of marriage to be deprived to the entire population.
The odds of Skinner and Loving being overturned are extremely, extremely unlikely. The only people in the US who'd want Loving overturned are white supremacists and the Nation of Islam, neither of which hold any political power. And I highly doubt there's ANYONE in the US who'd want Skinner overturned.
NY will become the 50th and final state to instate this law, which will unfortunately probably increase the divorce rate, which is currently 38.7% according to the NY Daily News, the third lowest divorce rate in the country. I say we repeal this law in every state, it's done nothing but add to the breakdown of marriages and families.
In NY it was making millions for lawyers , the party is over lawyers will have to find another pigeon . Its never for the good of people , its about the cash .
I thank God for no-fault divorce. It allowed me to get out of a 20 year marriage that my ex-husband destroyed without having to mortgage my children's future on attorneys fees or having to drag all the embarrasing details into the public record.
News flash to anyone who has never been divorced. it is NEVER easy. It is ALWAYS painful and no one wants to go through it twice. I admire people who have the guts to get married again after divorce. I lack the optimism to ever do it again.
Interesting how the man-hating feminists oppose the law. Makes it harder for them to plunder a man's hard-earned income and hand it over a gold-digging ex-wife.
Since divorce courts are often misandrous with outdated laws, it's nice to see men finally get some protection, not to mention the children who often become pawns in fights over money.
no one should have to justify to a stranger or a court why they want a divorce. you people who oppose want to force a couple to stay together if the court doesn't think their reason isn't good enough. talk about freedom in america
they could separate for a year, then file for divorce under the current system..
on the off chance the cheating spouse will change their ways? or the abuser will stop abusing. you wait long enough in a divorce no reason to wait a year longer
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