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blueseas

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Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:34 PM Jan 2025

If you want to get out of a marriage now may be the time. [View all]


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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