If you want to get out of a marriage now may be the time.

[blueseas]

More than 30 states and in the next US congress there will be what I call a set of creeping marriage modifications. These are a wide range of changes to marriage law that will change the how you get divorced and married including rolling back the concept of no fault divorce.

What do these proposed laws consist of? A whole basket of things. Some of these laws have been optional for years like extended contracts or covenants but have been famously unpopular.

So let us start out by saying a contractural marriage is an umbrella that says you can sign a contract that outlines more responsibilities in a marriage than already exist like a prenuptial or a financial agreements. The problem is (to MAGA) that these contracts can be voided if one person is very young (13 or 14), under duress, or if the contract is for marriage between two close relatives. See my previous article on men who homestead their wives.

But setting aside the more sinister nonsense, what is really going on? Well it is really a series of actions designed to fundamentally change marriage not through a single crazy law change but through a cross linking of laws the results in a new model.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. You could be trapped in a marriage replete with domestic violence.

Imagine calling the Police after a violent episode. They come. They talk to your husband and leave, telling you that "he's all right now."

No divorce because the Police refuse to report there was violence.

[blueseas]

2. And this

However legal changes are being proposed that would allow a husband to carry spousal privilege. Remember the new laws see men and women as different and unequal and assume there must be a jury trial before divorce. But the woman cannot now testify if the husband objects. So all those permitted reasons for divorce are now moot. One law shuts down the other with a single court ruling.

[spike jones]

4. I'll bet the term they will use will be that the husband and wife are differently equal.

[valleyrogue]

3. They want a return to coverture.

Women aren't going back to the home, and more and more of them are rejecting marriage altogether, which is why I say it is dying out in the West. The religious right knows this, and what they are trying to do is a last ditch attempt to shore it and patriarchy. They are going to lose.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes the women in some countries are reject dating men and marriage to them.

The laws and attitudes are not in women's bests interests there.
Japan and South Korea.

[Retrograde]

6. I read once that the states that used to be part of Mexico

kept a lot of Mexican marriage law because they wanted to encourage women to settle there. Among there laws were some on community property, which said that a married woman was entitled to a portion of property in a marriage in case of divorce. A lot of eastern states didn't give women this protection until the late 20th century - if then.

[Ilsa]

9. Community property laws did alot to protect women's

ownership of real property, especially ranches and farms that had been passed down generations, IIRC. So much in fact that some states, like Texas, didn't have alimony until recently, just child support.

[valleyrogue]

15. Those states are the "community property" states. The rest are common law states .n/t

[AllaN01Bear]

7. we fought for this for so long and now the rs are ripping things apart.

[Diraven]

8. No fault divorce is on the chopping block

In several red states (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska I've heard so far are all going to try).

[Jacson6]

10. Just sayin...

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[efhmc]

11. In this little old lady's opinion, what this is going to do to marriage is kill it for most younger women.

There is nothing economically good for them in it so unless it is a real bonded love match, why make a legal bond?

[Happy Hoosier]

12. My daughter is already leaning that way.

This would seal the deal.

[lostnfound]

13. Combine it with the right's fight against DEI, strategy is to make women's career choices plummet again

Companies are folding on attacks against their DEI programs. American Airlines and others sued for it, and 401K not permitted to invest in ESG funds.

Perhaps their strategy is broader than we think.

[Hekate]

14. The RW is trying to undo the entire 20th century, imo

Women’s rights, civil rights, workers’ rights, children’s rights — you name it. Every bit of progress that people fought and died for in the 20th century — the oligarchs and the RWNJs are working together to overturn.