Talk:Grounds for divorce (United States)

I wrote this article as it was requestedDan 19:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! Added some sectioning, stub tag, wikilinks, link to the main article on no-fault divorce, etc. JubalHarshaw 21:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Group 2 for Professor Konieczny's Sociology of Marriage class will cover the following topics:

• Fault grounds
  • adultery
  • cruelty
  • abandonment
  • mental illness
  • criminal conviction
• No-fault grounds
  • Separation for a certain period of time
  • Irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship ((irreconcilable differences//incompatibility of temperament))
  • What states accept this? MD & VA…
  • Shift of the acceptance of these
    • arguments for & against

• OTHER GROUNDS
  • Alcohol/ drug abuse
  • Impotency beginning from the time of the marriage & continuing until the time of the divorce, such that the marriage was never consummated
  • Failure to support 1’s spouse even though 1 has the ability to do so
• UNUSUAL GROUNDS
  • Joining a religious sect that destroys the marriage (New Hampshire)
  • Infection 1’s spouse with a venereal disease (Illinois)

• Defenses to grounds
  • The accused spouse was not actually at fault (for fault grounds)
    • condonation//reconciliation
    • recrimination
    • insanity
  • Spouses were not actually separated for the requisite period of time (for no-fault grounds)
  • There is still a chance of reconciliation (for no-fault grounds)

• Most common causes for divorce in the countries=
  • adultery
  • desertion
  • cruelty
  • conviction of crime

RESOURCES:

• Choudhri, Nihara K. The Complete Guide to Divorce Law. New York: Citadel, 2004. Print.
• Haman, Edward A. How to File Your Own Divorce. 4th ed. Naperville, IL: Sphinx Pub., 2003. Print.

--Naf24 (talk) 21:32, 19 September 2011 (UTC) --Naf24 (talk) 20:03, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

• Statsky, William P. Family Law the Essentials. 2, Illustrated, revised, Cengage Learning pub., 2003. Print.
• Ventura, John, and Reed, Mary Divorce for Dummies. 3, Illustrated, For Dummies Pub., 2009. Print.
• Parkman, Allen M. Good Intentsions Gone Awry: No-Fault Divorce and The American Family. Illustrated, Rowman and Littlefield Pub., 2000. Print.
• Ehrlich, Shoshanna J. Family Law for Paralegals. 4th ed. Aspen Publishers Online Pub., 2007. Print

--Nas132 (talk) 13:44, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

I will be researching and providing information on the topics listed under “fault grounds” as well as the defense, “the accused spouse was not actually at fault” and the key terms that go along with it. --Naf24 (talk) 20:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I will be researching and providing information on the topics under "No Fault Grounds" as well as the defense, "There is still a chance of reconciliation".--Nas132 (talk) 21:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)