Lawmaker wants unhappy couples to live apart for 3 years before they can divorce

[TexasTowelie]

Once the fruitcake is gone and the champagne bottle is empty, couples wanting out of their marriages tend to look to January as a prime time to figure out how to get a divorce.

“Buckle your seat belts, January is a bumpy ride,” said Cindy Diggs, of Holmes Diggs Eames & Sadler, a Houston law firm that concentrates on divorce and family law. “It’s going to be a busy month.”

Lawyers call it “divorce month” because of an uptick in inquiries and filings following the holidays, but one state lawmaker wants to make it harder for married couples to call it quits.

Conservative Republican Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, said he wants to strengthen families and reinforce the sanctity of marriage by eliminating no-fault divorces, which now allow couples to split amicably with neither legally alleging blame.

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[madaboutharry]

1. I have no patience

for these sanctimonious assholes. They need to worry about their own lives and stop trying to control everyone else's.

[Warpy]

2. While it might cut down on the serial polygamy

practiced by a type of man who ditches multiple families, going for younger women each time, it would be a terrible thing to do to people getting out of bad marriages because of things like violence, abuse of the children, and addictions.

This sanctimonious twit is in severe denial about how bad a bad marriage can get. I doubt sitting in on family court for a couple of years would penetrate the cement. Best thing to do is laugh him out of the lege.

[fleabiscuit]

3. In my head I was betting Alabamistan. Texasistan was several down. n/t

[get the red out]

4. Great

My sister couldn't even get a home loan until her divorce was final. How does the added stress of getting back on your feet, for the party not getting the home, help save marriages? And even when a home isn't involved, mutual property has to be divided, decisions about any children the couple has must be made. It puts everyone involved under stress. If someone wants to marry over and over, fine, it took long enough for this dramatic change to be settled for my young nieces even with a divorce not governed by someone else's religion.