Posted on 02/05/2011 3:00:42 PM PST by mbeaven
Senate bill 2367 [link] requires at minimum a one-year waiting period before a divorce may be issued. In that year both partners are required to go to 10+ counselling sessions
https://considerandhearme.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/north-dakota-senate-challenges-divorce/
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If its cut to 6 months and 3 counseling sessions it could pass.
The Association of Divorce Lawyers is not amused.
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If a married couple is unhappy they should be allowed to proceed at whatever pace best suits their diverce-related needs. There’s no way that a spouse with one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel should be forced to attend a bunchof counseling sessions with the person they’re trying to leave.
More government intrusion will NEVER fix anything.
Counseling should be available to those couples that desire it, but never required of those that don’t.
One of the states should introduce legislation that makes a marriage license expire after a certain number of years unless both spouses choose to renew it.
The divorce lawyers would be cut completely out of the picture.
Isn’t this the second time that you’ve posted this from your blog?
I hope it passes.
The North Dakota Association of Marriage Counselors begs to differ.
Over the years I've learned that the most common practice during the Great Depression was for an aggressive young man to put his efforts toward buying more land "cheap".
I know of one fellow who ended up owning SECTIONS ~ that's a really huge chunk of land ~ by anybody's standard ~ and he never married momma ~ and adopted out all his kids.
When I got to know about them the kids were still trying to reassemble the family. Momma had already died.
By adopting them out the guy sought to disinherit everyone ~ except for the daughter he was sleeping with.
There's still some of that going on up there.
Perhaps a better idea is to only allow no-fault divorce for divorces that are 100% amicable, and bring back FAULT divorce so that other relevant circumstances (adultery, violence, blackmail, etc) can actually weigh in to how assets are distributed.
That makes more sense. Counseling sessions are a waste of time and money and only serve to give the counselors a job.
6 months is plenty of tiem.
People are not children, they know when it is over.
6 months and counseling only if there are children involved.
Thats better.
How long does a divorce usually take to become final?
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Because he’s a freaking troll.
Needs the zot, remember?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2668757/posts
Interestingly, this sort of development was predicted in the book “The Fourth Turning.”
Just one more reason not to get married in the first place. Don't give the government more control over your life.
In Maryland it takes 12 months separation before you can file for divorce.
They send you to what they call a Master before you get to see a Judge. The Master is a real sorry lawyer who couldn’t make it in his practice, so the State appoints him as a Master.
It is supposed to take part of the work load off of over worked Judges. What it really does is toss away your money in lawyers playing with this Master for a year or so, before you get to see a Judge.
Lawyer Full Employment Act
I would like to see government out of the marriage/divorce game completely. I know some people here will say what about the children. My response is because someone made a bad choice on who to have sex with you are going to steal money from me (i.e. taxes) to enforce child support payments, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc.
Get rid of all these federal and state programs, return it to the local communities to help these people. I know this would be harsh but I bet this would put a stop to unwed mothers and would cut the divorce rate considerably.
While the divorce rate is lamentable, all this does is guarantee that some poor ex-spouse-to-be will be shackled to someone who has decided they do not want to place their family ahead of their own particular self-destructive god for a year, be that meth, alcohol, child porn, or whatever.
Imagine discovering the spouse molesting the children.
Sometimes making the split swift and sure is best.
(Not to mention the social services industry here doesn't need more money for having someone who has never been married tell a couple how to live.
Government has no place in the Sacrament of Matrimony, except to record the union and the issue (at most) and this is a gross intrusion.
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