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Play It Again, Sam: New York Legislator Proposes No-Fault Divorce

By Janet Langjahr

Once again, a New York State legislator has sponsored a bill to allow for no-fault divorce in New York.

New York is the only state that still doesn’t offer an option for a true no-fault divorce.

And even this latest incarnation of a no-fault divorce proposal in New York applies only to uncontested divorces, where the spouses agree upon a settlement.

New York’s current divorce law makes for unnecessarily contentious and expensive divorces. But, despite this, all past efforts to adopt no-fault divorce in New York have failed.

Read more in this New York State Bar Association press release: State Bar Association Commends State Senate Committee on Judiciary for Advancing No-Fault Divorce Legislation.

Full post as published by Florida Divorce - Child Custody - Domestic Abuse Law on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).