Yes, but not for the reason you may think.
In the age of no-fault divorce, you don’t really need to persuade the court to grant you a divorce. Divorce is essentially available on demand. Your spouse’s IQ need not have anything to do with it.
Some people think “no-fault divorce” means that “you can’t divorce me if I’m not at fault.” Not true.
No-fault divorce means that if you want to get a divorce, you don’t have to prove, as the reason for seeking a divorce, that your spouse has committed some kind of fault entitling you to a divorce. All you have to do is claim that there are “irreconcilable differences” between you and your spouse that have caused an irreparable breakdown in the marriage.
Before no-fault divorce was made the law in every state in the United States of America, one could not obtain a divorce unless his/her spouse had committed a “marital fault”. What constitutes marital fault? Each state has its own list, but generally speaking, marital fault includes:
- adultery
- impotency of the respondent at the time of marriage
- cruelty
- abandonment, desertion, neglect (failure of the spouse to provide necessary financial/temporal support)
- insanity or severe mental illness
- certain criminal convictions (usually a felony or those resulting in long-term imprisonment)
- alcohol and drug abuse
- contracting a “loathsome disease” (i.e., a sexually transmitted disease)
With no-fault divorce the law now, fault on the part of your need not exist to qualify you to file for divorce
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