Thursday, January 16, 2003
Oklahoma lawmaker files bill to limit ground for divorce in state
A story released today by the Associated Press reports that a Republican Oklahoma state lawmaker has filed legislation that would limit incompatibility as grounds for divorce.
Rep. Mike O'Neal of Enid said his measure would bar incompatibility as grounds for divorce if the couple has minor children or if one of the spouses objects to the separation.
"This would really make the wedding contract as valid as any other contract," O'Neal said. "As it is now, a couple can get a divorce simply because they don't get along."
Besides incompatibility, grounds for divorce include abandonment for at least a year, adultery, impotence, extreme cruelty, fraud, habitual drunkenness, gross neglect of duty, imprisonment, insanity and if at the time of the marriage the wife was pregnant by someone other than her husband.
