Alternative Dispute Resolution
Nov. 21, 2006
Feeling 'Nervous and Upset' Over Declining Institutional Memory
'I was nervous and upset." These were the words you coached your client to say before the no-fault divorce law was enacted.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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'I was nervous and upset." These were the words you coached your client to say before the no-fault divorce law was enacted. In those days, there were few grounds to obtain a marital dissolution, what we still call "divorce" in lay terms. Not easy to prove incurable insanity and unseemly to talk about impotence before the Bob Dole ads.
There were a few unlucky practitioners who lost default hearings before demanding...
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