For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced
…except in Reno where you could become a citizen of Reno for six months, get divorced, and then move back to your home state which had to recognize the divorce.
more liberal grounds for divorce meant that instead of getting a divorce in your actual home state, it could be much easier to become a temporary Nevada resident, secure a divorce, and then return to home. This of course made a lot of conservative politicians and social leaders in other states furious. They hated that residents could circumnavigate their own state laws and they tried to bar the legality of a Nevada-acquired divorce
Hmm. Where have I heard something similar lately…?
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