{"id":2052807,"date":"2023-10-02T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/divorce-in-maryland-simplified-under-law-that-eliminates-at-fault-requirement\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:19:02","slug":"divorce-in-maryland-simplified-under-law-that-eliminates-at-fault-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/divorce-in-maryland-simplified-under-law-that-eliminates-at-fault-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce in Maryland simplified under law that eliminates at-fault requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdivorce-in-maryland-simplified-under-law-that-eliminates-at-fault-requirement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2052807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Getting divorced in Maryland just got a little easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New laws\u00a0that went into effect Sunday will streamline the process, shaving months of mandatory waiting times, eliminating the at-fault requirement, and doing away with &#8220;limited&#8221; divorce, which didn&#8217;t completely end a marriage but allowed the couple to legally live their lives apart from one another while setting conditions for custody, visitation, child support, and the use of a family home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>INCOMING CALIFORNIA SEN. LAPHONZA BUTLER&#8217;S ADDRESS SHOWS HER LIVING IN MARYLAND<\/p>\n<p>The new laws aim to make Maryland&#8217;s lengthy and contentious divorce process easier to navigate for all parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change is getting rid of the at-fault requirement, which eliminates six rigid reasons needed in order to file for divorce in the state. Under Maryland&#8217;s previous law, a person could only be granted a divorce for adultery, desertion, criminal convictions, insanity, cruelty, and after a mandatory 12-month separation period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose require the employment of private detectives and very difficult testimony, very embarrassing testimony in court,\u201d state Sen. Chris West, a Baltimore County Republican who sponsored the bill, said. \u201cIt\u2019s been shown that it really destroys families, especially it destroys children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rama Taib-Lopez, an attorney in the family law practice at Rockville-based Stein Sperling, told WTOP that by &#8220;repealing default grounds for divorce, the Maryland Legislature has taken the step forward to turn the temperature down a notch and permit couples to start moving on without the time and expense of having to show who was at fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>Throwing out the mandatory 12-month separation time frame and replacing it with a six-month separation not only reduces the financial stress brought on by such a life-changing event but also allows those involved an easier transition. The new law also no longer requires the divorced couple to live in separate homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could be living under the same roof and still file for divorce on the grounds of separation if you can show the court that you and your spouse have simply pursued separate lives,\u201d Taib-Lopez added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting divorced in Maryland just got a little easier.\u00a0New laws\u00a0that went into effect Sunday will streamline the process, shaving months of mandatory waiting times, eliminating the at-fault requirement, and doing away with &#8220;limited&#8221; divorce, which didn&#8217;t completely end a marriage but allowed the couple to legally live their lives apart from one another while setting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2052808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}