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Saturday, April 25, 2009

How to stop your divorce and save your marriage

by Joseph Nicholson

Society and Divorce

How divorce is treated by the law is largely a reflection of social attitudes, which have changed dramatically over time. When divorces were first made widely available, the legal procedure retained the centuries old stigma of one spouse having to prove a fault in the other almost as if they were seeking conviction just to be released from the bonds of matrimony. During this period, stopping a divorce usually meant contesting the grounds on which it was filed. The remnants of this system still exist in state legal systems as what are known as "fault divorce." (read more)

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