Display:
Crikey where do you start with this ? Everything about it stinks, but if they both want to get divorced, let 'em get divorced. Why the bs excuses about virginity ?

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:31:13 AM EST
[ Parent ]
What they initially wanted was an annulment rather than a divorce; and the grounds was that she lied to him about a "fundamental" part of who she was (ie being a virgin).

There was outrage that virginity could be seen as grounbds for annulment, although some narrow legalistic interpretations focused on the lying part were brought forward (and then rejected by many on the grounds that virginity should not be a fundamental issue and making it so was degrading to women).

So they don't get an annulment and now will divorce.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:51:23 AM EST
[ Parent ]
This whole thing was Waste Of Money, Brains and Time.

They both wanted the marriage annulled. He was a dumbass for insisting on the virginity thing. She was a dumbass for wanting to get married to a guy who insisted on that. The outraged dumbasses who raised hell about this were dumbasses. And the court which finally cancelled the cancellation was full of dumbasses.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.

by nicta (nico@altiva․fr) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 12:47:31 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I don't think they'll be prevented from getting a divorce, but not for that reason.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:51:42 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:
Login
. Make a new account
. Reset password
Occasional Series