Hector Tobar Quotes

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Because the woman is more emotional, if we put the right of divorce in her hand she might divorce for the smallest reasons. But the man, known for bearing more responsibility, will not divorce except in states of extreme necessity

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.

A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.

I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.

Divorce court seemed to inspire in my girlfriends 1940s-era fashion fantasies, not only for me, but for themselves.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.