On September 5, 1969, Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Family Law Act, launching California as the first state in the nation with ‘no-fault’ divorce.

The law quickly took hold elsewhere, including Iowa, which followed California’s lead six months later.

By 1971, Colorado,…

What is no-fault divorce?

When you ask most people, they will say it’s a mutual-consent process, or that it preserves privacy, or that it eliminates blame for the failure of the marriage.

Not many people will answer that it’s a lawsuit in which one…

Marriage is supposed to be the safe harbor for raising children. But when no-fault divorce laws were introduced, the safe harbor was lost because marriage became disposable.

A marriage can now be ended by a unilateral act that disregards the other…

“This is an extraordinary moment in history,” Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco told a cheering, standing-room-only crowd at City Hall. “I think today, marriage as an institution has been strengthened.”

These were the words that rang out from the news…

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of two legal tragedies for families. While the Church loudly protests one of them — Roe v Wade, the other — the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act — is completely ignored.

A Legal Milestone Hidden in…