Divorce summons (1 Viewer)

cirerita

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Guilty of "extreme cruelty" and of inflicting "grievous mental suffering"...

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U.S. Government legalese was slow to change and not even pretty to begin with. They were bureaucrats then and now without regard for style points. It might have been a carryover from the telegraph age ?
 
I don't know about US-law, but in Germany there used to be a principle with divortions that claimed, that one of the partners needs to take the "guilt" for a failed marriage - by law.
(In Germany called "Schuldprinzip") This principle was only dropped somewehere during the 1970s. Before that, claims like cruelty etc were common in those sorts of papers.
 
Nice find! - i wonder if people can get divorced nowadays without giving a reason? I don't see why they should give a reason at all.
 
I don't know about US-law, but in Germany there used to be a principle with divortions that claimed, that one of the partners needs to take the "guilt" for a failed marriage - by law.
Yes, it was (is?) common for divorces in the USA to be based on fault. That is the origin for all of those set-ups where a spouse and a woman/man are "discovered" in a hotel room - factual "proof" of infidelity. Staple of many classic films. No-fault divorces are relatively recent. I would be curious to see if any evidence of cruelty was submitted. Would such proof only be required if the divorce was contested? I presume Buk didn't contest the divorce so that evidence might not have been presented.
 

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