Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
North Carolina has the 1 year rule. My brother and his ex wife had to be legally separated for 1 year, which meant jumping through all these hoops and filling out paperwork.
I think the idea was to try and save marriages, but all it did was keep them from getting on with their lives like they wanted to do.
What's the technical definition of separated here? Does it apply both before and after divorce has been filed for?
In my brother's case he and his wife had to live apart, file some paperwork (I think) and maybe a few other things BEFORE they could even file for divorce.
The actual process of filling out and filing the paperwork and getting the divorce was fairly quick (considering he was living in another country).
I have what may be an anarchist bent, and would love to think that adults know when they're done.
Some states like it one way, and states like California don't require separation. You can choose where you live and where you marry. Such is the supposed benefit of the federalist system. After awhile all legislative policy starts looking like moralizing. And for myself I think on the macropolitical level it is preferable to encourage marriage, even though I don't think divorce laws do that.
You can choose where you live and where you marry.
If I marry in one state but live somewhere else, and then divorce in a third state, is there a consistent way to determine what law applies where?
(now I'm off reading Wikipedia on legal fiction--if only any of this information would be useful or retained)
Grrr. Who sends jobs to the communal printer requiring 8.5 by 12 paper, thereby blocking the whole print queue until they remember to go and fucking load their mutant paper?
Is it still defenestration if you smash someone's head through the copier glass?
If I marry in one state but live somewhere else, and then divorce in a third state, is there a consistent way to determine what law applies where?
Yes; so-called "choice-of-law" principles apply in general to any suit where the laws of different jurisdictions are relevant. AFAIK the laws of the state you are getting the divorce from apply (to the divorce). I would guess that in most states, they will only grant a divorce if you married there or if one or both parties are resident. I would direct you to this wikipedia page but I find it incomprehensible: [link]
Well, I cleared up a semantic issue early on in that page, but then I got dizzy. And it reminded me of a Wikipedia article of this morning (I do work, I swear it) with the woman who was trying to get all mention of Islam off her identity card so that she could marry her Christian love. Apparently Malaysia doesn't allow inter-marriages.
People are weird.