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2. Grounds for divorce (United States) - Wikipedia

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   In 1969-1970, California became the first state to pass a purely no-fault divorce law, i.e., one which did not offer any fault divorce grounds. [29] They chose to terminate all fault grounds for divorce and utilized single no-fault standards making divorce easier and less costly. [ 29 ]

3. Irreconcilable differences - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, this is one of several possible grounds.Often, it is used as justification for a no-fault divorce.In many cases, irreconcilable differences were the original and only grounds for no-fault divorce, such as in California, which enacted America's first purely no-fault divorce law in 1969. [2]

4. Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It is commonly claimed that half of all marriages in the United States eventually end in divorce, an estimate possibly based on the fact that in any given year, the number of marriages is about twice the number of divorces. [91] Amato outlined in his study on divorce that in the late of 1990s, about 43% to 46% of marriages were predicted to end ...

5. Mortgage Confidential: Why lenders want to see your divorce ...

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   Alimony payments only show up in divorce papers and if someone has a $1,000 a month support obligation that could seriously affect the ability to make house payments.

6. No-fault divorce - Wikipedia

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   No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. [1] [2] Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract.

7. Divorce of same-sex couples - Wikipedia

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   A 2011 study for states with available data initially reported that the dissolution rates for same-sex couples were slightly lower on average (on average, 1.1% of all same-sex couples were said to divorce each year, ranging from 0% to 1.8% in various jurisdictions) than divorce rates of different-sex couples (2% of whom divorce annually). [25]