Til Death Do Us Part?
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
United States
May 15, 2008 2:36am CST
What would you do if you wanted a divorce but the states denied your request?In New York, Mississippi, and Tennessee it is real hard to get a divorce, I just read the Yahoo news article.There are only four resasons for divorce in these states,cruelty and inhuman treatment, adultery,abandonment for one year,or 3 years in prison.I know these laws were set to try to keep the family together for the children but if one or both parents aren't happy and they fight all the time or even worse they don't speak at all , how can that be good for the children?
I know if I were in a marriage that I wanted to end but the state wouldn't help I would either just disappear.We would still be married on paper but I wouldn't be anywhere he could find me.Or I would be forces t do something unlawful and very premeditated.what is your view of the state making it difficult to divorce?
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
15 May 08
I don't know what the laws are now..but when I got a divorce we had to go through marriage couseling before they would grant our divorce...If I lived in one of those states...and wanted a divorce...I would move! I don't think that the state has the right to decide what is right in a marriage. That is between the two people involved.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
16 May 08
This another reason why I don't like mixing love and marriage. I am very old fashioned. I rather have one Or the other. I believe that g-d is present when you find love but I don't believe that the state has to be.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
16 May 08
I am very fortunate in that my marriage is a strong one, and my husband and I will never desire a divorce.
Now, if something were to happen, and I felt that I needed to get out of that marriage, and it was not an option in the state I was in at the time, I would go to another state or province.
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