Divorce By maiay Feb 9, 2012 Divorce in Early Rome "...law stepped in at an early date & provided that instead of killing her when he was tired of her, whenever she asserted her independence which he was now only allowed to do if she were taken in adultery he might divorce her. The wife had never any right to the children who became her husband's as soon as they were born." Feb 27, 2012 First Divorce Within the Colonies In the first record of a legal divorce, Jan 5, 1643, in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts. Mar 18, 2012 Divorce and the Constitution; Ann Laquer Estin American divorce law was transformed by the Supreme Court in a series of decisions beginning with Williams v. North Carolina 1942. The Court cleared a path for innovations including unilateral no-fault divorce and divorce based on mutual consent and laid the foundation for a stronger national role in domestic relations law. Apr 20, 2012 Silent Revolution: The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States by Herbert Jacob The law's treatment of children has gone through 4 phases in the United States...From..1850s to 1940s children belonged in their mother's custody. By the middle of th 1970s, state law emphasized gender neutrality and began to look at joint custody of both parents. May 10, 2012 Different types of divorce Courts in the United States currently recognize two types of divorces: absolute divorce, known as "divorce a vinculo matrimonii" and limited divorce, known as "divorce a menso et thoro". May 19, 2012 Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was the only president that was divorced. From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who was also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott. Reagan served 2 terms in 1981-1989.
