Divorce Law Quotes

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.

A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the only woman ever to apply for group alimony. Never got a dinner!

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

In 1857 the Divorce Act was passed, and, as is well known, set up by law a different moral standard for men and women. Under this Act which is still in force a man can obtain the dissolution of the marriage if he can prove one act of infidelity on the part of his wife; but a woman cannot get her marriage dissolved unless she can prove that her husband has been guilty both of infidelity and cruelty.

In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

No amount of ill usage, without adultery superadded, will in England free a wife from her tormentor.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed, that person has a claim on everything you own.

The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

Divorce court seemed to inspire in my girlfriends 1940s-era fashion fantasies, not only for me, but for themselves.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

Because divorce and polygamy are accepted traditions backed by men’s interpretation of the Koran, women have learned to require their future husbands to sign a prenuptial agreement, whereby he forfeits his rights to unconditional divorce or marrying a second wife.

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.