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The road to Reno: A history of divorce in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1977) Chused, Richard H. Private acts in public places: A social history of divorce in the formative era of American family law (U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994) Griswold, Robert L. "The Evolution of the Doctrine of Mental Cruelty in Victorian American Divorce, 1790-1900."
Divorce laws have changed a great deal over the last few centuries. [10] Many of the grounds for divorce available in the United States today are rooted in the policies instated by early British rule. [11] Following the American Colonies' independence, each settlement generally determined its own acceptable grounds for divorce. [12]
1907 – Under the Expatriation Act of 1907, American women will lose citizenship when they marry a foreign husband. [2] 1913 – The federal government formally recognizes marriage in law for the first time with the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913. 1929 – All states now have laws regarding marriage licenses.
Recent divorce rates mirror the years before the legalization of no-fault divorce. In 2022, 673,989 couples dissolved their marriage—2.4 per 1,000 people—less than the 2.9 per 1,000 people ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steven Bannon discussed whether a "national divorce" was the right course of action for the country after the congresswoman posted a Twitter poll about a possible ...
I’m referring to the right-wing Georgia congresswoman’s rumination about American Divorce, Greene’s Big Idea that blue states are so darn hard on the red-state mindset that Real Americans be ...
Hawaii, New York, Alaska and Washington repeal their abortion laws. Hawaii became the first state to legalize abortions on the request of the woman, [130] New York repealed its 1830 law, and Washington held a referendum on legalizing early pregnancy abortions, becoming the first state to legalize abortion through a vote of the people. [131]
Before the latter decades of the 20th century, a spouse seeking divorce had to show cause and even then might not be able to obtain a divorce. The legalization of no-fault divorce in the United States began in 1969 in California, under legislation signed by then-Governor Ronald Reagan and was completed in 2010, with New York being the last of ...