Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of angry debate, the New York legislature last week tossed out the toughest divorce law in the land. An antique drafted by Alexander Hamilton in 1787, it was the only U.S. divorce law that parted spouses solely for adultery, a rule that spawned fraud and collusion on a...
As voters watched over TV for the first time, the blue-shirted lawmakers enacted a new divorce code that broadened even the old adultery provision: it classifies sodomy and a homosexual act by either spouse as adultery. In addition, New Yorkers may now divorce on four new grounds: cruel and...
The main clash came over the separation provision, which Catholic critics branded "divorce by consent." Actually, easier divorce may now be possible under the new law's vague cruelty provision, depending on how much proof of "cruelty" the state's judges demand. In many other states, cruelty is...
Critics claim that this provision's use against the typical Nevada or Idaho divorce is barred by the U.S. Constitution, which commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments. As for Mexican divorces, the New York Court of Appeals has declared...
Or so lots of the teen-age hippies swinging to Franky Valley's rock-'n'-roll hit think. Last week a group of psychologists and educators gathered at the San Francisco Medical Center to discuss how teen-age marriages fare. The background statistics were chilling in themselves...