Material to fill in.
History of Divorce
Religious/Cultural Attitudes to Divorce
Legal Aspects of Divorce
- United States
Under the laws of most of the states of the United States except New York a divorce is now called dissolution of marriage. This change of name was accompanied by a change to no fault divorce which is a change from fault based divorce whereby one party was found guilty of one of the grounds for divorce such as adultery, desertion, or cruelty. Now it is simply necessary to plead that the marriage is "irretreivably broken."
- family law probably should be linked to here to cover this material.
- grounds for divorce issues (no-fault divorce etc.)
- financial settlements
- children's issues.
- pre-nupitual agreements.
Social and Psychological Issues
- effects on children
- women's shelters etc.
- men's rights movements