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The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 (1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6.c. 57) is a law on divorce in the United Kingdom.It extended the grounds for divorce, which until then only included adultery, to include unlawful desertion for three years or more, cruelty, and incurable insanity, incest or sodomy.
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1873; The Matrimonial Causes Act 1878; The Matrimonial Causes Act 1884; The Matrimonial Causes Act 1907; The Matrimonial Causes (Dominions Troops) Act 1919; The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923; The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937; The Matrimonial Causes Act (Northern Ireland) 1939; The Matrimonial Causes (War Marriages) Act 1944
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 made adultery a ground of divorce for either spouse. Previously, only the man had been able to do this; women had to prove additional fault. [4] [5] A further Act in 1937 (the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937) offered additional grounds for divorce: cruelty, desertion and incurable insanity. [6]
The Union advocated for changes to existing divorce laws, achieving some of its aims with the passing of A. P. Herbert's Matrimonial Causes Act of 1937, which extended the grounds for divorce to include cruelty, desertion and incurable insanity.
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An Act to extend, until the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the period in respect of which grants are to be paid to local authorities out of moneys provided by Parliament under section one of the Unemployment Assistance (Temporary Provisions) (No. 2) Act, 1935; to provide for the adjustment of such grants between ...
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The Act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings ...