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  2. Grounds for divorce (United States) - Wikipedia

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    When California first enacted divorce laws in 1850, the only grounds for divorce were impotence, extreme cruelty, desertion, neglect, habitual intemperance, fraud, adultery, or conviction of a felony. In 1969-1970, California became the first state to pass a purely no-fault divorce law, i.e., one which did not offer any fault divorce grounds.

  3. Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Private international law. Family and criminal code. (or criminal law) v. t. e. Divorce in the United States is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the marriage existing between two persons. Divorce restores the persons to the status of being single and permits them to marry other individuals.

  4. No-fault divorce - Wikipedia

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    No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract.

  5. Patt Morrison: California settled no-fault divorce ... - AOL

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    California, ever the pioneer, was the first state to legalize no-fault divorce in 1969. Other states followed suit — New York, the last, in 2010, about two whole generations later.

  6. Timeline of civil marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1929 – All states now have laws regarding marriage licenses. 1933 – Married women granted right to citizenship independent of their husbands. 1948 – California Supreme Court overturns interracial marriage ban (Perez v. Sharp). 1965 – The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting married couples from using contraception (Griswold v.

  7. Irreconcilable differences - Wikipedia

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    In many cases, irreconcilable differences were the original and only grounds for no-fault divorce, such as in California, which enacted America's first purely no-fault divorce law in 1969. California now lists one other possible basis, "permanent legal incapacity to make decisions" (formerly "incurable insanity"), on its divorce petition form.

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