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2. Child custody laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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   New Jersey New Jersey courts require all divorcing parents with minor children to complete a mandatory Parents' Education Program before granting a divorce per the Parent's Education Act. The law, N.J.S.A 2A:34-12.3 [7] , enacted in 1999, was established to promote cooperation between the parties and to assist in resolving issues that arrive ...

3. James Sexton (attorney) - Wikipedia

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   James J. Sexton. James Joseph Sexton (born 1972) is an American attorney focusing his practice exclusively in divorce and family law in the New York metropolitan area . Sexton is a frequent media commentator on divorce-related issues and the author of two books on preventing divorce and maintaining a happy marriage.

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. Grounds for divorce (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Several grounds for fault divorce include adultery, cruelty, abandonment, mental illness, and criminal conviction. [7] There are, however, additional grounds that are acceptable in some states such as drug abuse, impotency, and religious reasons. [9] While there are various grounds for divorce across the United States, there are also defenses ...

6. 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.

7. Covenant marriage - Wikipedia

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   Covenant marriage. Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States ( Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana ), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from ...