...screamed hundreds of New York women (ok, maybe a few men, too) early Monday morning.
New York is a progressive state. I still think so. But it was the last -- dead last -- state to allow no-fault divorce. On Sunday, it caught up with the rest of the states. NY actually went the whole nine yards and now also allows one spouse to boot out the other whether she/he wants to go or not. As it should be.
However, there is a downside to this law. Some collateral damage, if you will. An entire industry of (mostly) women are now unemployed. In the bad old days when you had to have a reason for requesting a divorce -- which most often turned out to be adultery -- it was damned hard to get the goods (i.e. evidence). So the cuckolded spouse (usually the woman) employed a *seductress* to entrap the philandering spouse. I don't know exactly how that stood up in court. All I know is that the entrapment business was thriving. (I did *not* make this up.)
So now we have all these seductress impersonators looking for work. I'm thinking they could find some book and movie deals, though, don't you?
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Can you imagine how much more complicated our own lives would have been if we'd have had to prove fault in order to end our prior marriages?
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