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ChAPtEr 6
The Legal Issues
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.
—Richard Pryor
Nowadays divorce is no-fault. Hawai‘i, where I practice, is a no-fault
divorce state, as are almost all other states in the country. This
means that you no longer have to make the kinds of sensational
“fault-based” accusations against your spouse (such as mental
cruelty, desertion, alcoholism or adultery) that many of us may