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...Americans-and its inevitable problems seem to catch them by surprise. Mistakes are also easier to make in a day when mating is more random than ever. Unlike the divorce laws, the laws of marriage are simplicity itself: a girl can marry at 18 in most states without parental consent, and 20 states do not even bother with the normal three-day wait after a blood test. Many who get married do not seem to know quite what it is all about; a survey showed that U.S. teen-agers agree widely on only one marital duty: that the man should...
...church began granting annulments and separations. At Luther's urging, the Protestant Reformation approved secular divorce for grounds of adultery or desertion. Such Catholic countries as Italy and Argentina still ban divorce, but many others, from Japan to Sweden, have reached the point of permitting divorce by mutual consent...
...divorce laws theoretically shun the idea of mutual consent because it offends religious tradition and raises the specter of too many marriages being dissolved by whim or passing despair. In practice, however, 90% of U.S. divorces actually involve mutual consent that is disguised by legal hocus-pocus or outright perjury. Reason: the whole U.S. approach begins with a disastrous premise. Instead of recognizing that both parties are almost always partly to blame, U.S. law demands verified proof of "fault" by one partner-and only one. The insistence seems almost sadistic: the "innocent" party must prove his or her mate "guilty...
...York, accept such divorces because the Constitution commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments. On the other hand, no state is required to recognize the highly popular 24-hour Mexican divorce, which shuns the domicile lie and mainly involves mutual consent. The only state that fully recognizes Mexican divorce is New York-all because its own archaic law has forced more than 250,000 New Yorkers to get Mexican divorces...
...recordings of the radio broadcast of an opera or a symphony to be copied and sold. Almost all the material of the book, said Mary, was the stuff that Papa could have put into an autobiography. As such, it now belonged to her, and she had not given her consent...