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Won't sign divorce papers.

posted 10 years ago by carrie45
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I am so sick of this writers' tactic. I don't know about Texas but most states have no fault divorce laws. Just be separated for a certain period of time and then one can get a divorce. The spouse doesn't sign the divorce judgment, a judge does. In my state the divorce can be granted before the property settlement, but that is different in some states. Molly should kill her ex husband and not look back. In Texas, she only would have to stand her ground, but that defense might only apply to white men. Anyway, the best thing about this show is the star, who is gorgeous.

[–] starwolf 10 years ago

If the other party won't sign the papers, the judge can grant the divorce anyway in Texas.

As my lawyer told me when I got divorced (in Texas) and I told her my wife wouldn't be signing divorce papers, "No one can make you stay married."

However, it can (and in my case did) drag out two years. But that is the limit, after two years the judge must either allow or deny the divorce. I am not sure under what conditions a judge will deny the divorce and I have never heard of it happening, but evidently he can.

[–] MidnightThud 10 years ago

Yeah its clumsy, yet so many shows do it. I assume its an attempt at ongoing character drama but its just so dumb and ancient.

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 10 years ago

Did anyone pick up on the judge being a crony of the husband?

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

[–] starwolf 10 years ago

Did anyone pick up on the judge being a crony of the husband?

Yep. And since we elect our judges in Texas that's actually often an issue.

One of the largest civil judgments in the US, Texaco v Pennzoil, was decided by a judge who was a drinking and golf buddy of Pennzoil's lead council. (Yes, there was a jury, but the judge's charge to the jury reads like a directed verdict, and what the jury was allowed to hear was shaped by the judge.) The trial was a joke - an expensive, bad, unfunny joke, but a joke nonetheless.