Florida Divorce Law

Florida Divorce Law

Summary:

Divorces during the last decade were more unforgiving or amusing at times. Before the introduction of the No-Fault Divorce Law, couples seeking divorce have been exploiting legal fiction to the disgust of lawyers. New York for example did have the highest rate for "collusive accounts of adultery" where an adulterine scenario is meticulously prepared by the couples themselves. So the wife pleads a divorce while weeping and sobbing that she is really a victim of adultery. It was identical case after case.

It was in 1960s when the need to recognize those couples who really are determined to end their marriages should get what they wanted with the minimum involvement of the court. That is to retain the integrity of the court from those that file fictitious claims just to get a divorce approved. The state of California was the first ever to pass the bill No-Fault Law signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan that would allow the proceedings of a marriage dissolution by grounds of irreconcilable differences.

Though it was met with mixed upshot, the No-Fault Divorce Bill did provide an easy way out of marriage. Too easy perhaps, as noted by most family psychologists that divorces indeed climbed a soaring high percentage than the past years. Not only that, it heightened the divorce statistics as the numbers of casual marriages have become repeated. Notes Maggie Gallagher, author of the "The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love", that bill implementation closely coincides with the divorce statistics in the last 25 years. Yet it did nothing to the number of unhappy marriages at present.

All of United States has embraced the bill though some bills have certain strict guidelines in order to control the exploitation of the bill. Like the New York Divorce Law whose mandate requires legal separation for one year before a divorce can be considered. But some others are definitely lax, not requiring separation before the No Fault Divorce proceedings can ensue; such as California and Florida Divorce Law.

The Florida Divorce Law is a No Fault Divorce state, or sometimes shamelessly called "Divorce Mills" due to couples that "vacation" in Florida to file divorce. Whether it was intentional or accidental, tourism nevertheless benefited from the bill as it provides two kinds of benefit: a vacation while getting a divorce. Here are the facts concerning the Florida Divorce Law.

* The Florida Divorce Law is designed to preserve the integrity of marriage and to safeguard meaningful family relationships or to promote the amicable settlement of disputes that arise between parties to a marriage and to mitigate the potential harm to the spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage.
* One of the parties to the marriage must reside 6 months in the state before the filing of the petition. Proceedings may be brought against persons residing out of the state.