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- Arkansas is one state with a long (18-month) waiting period but no reduction for mutual consent, Arkansas, still has one of the highest divorce rates.
- Habitual drunkenness for one (1) year is one of the grounds for divorce cited in the Arkansas divorce statutes.
- Arkansas is one of the 5 states in what is called the "Bible Belt", with the highest divorce rate in the country. The others are Nevada, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma and the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average.
- Mike Huckabee, governor of Arkansas has declared a "marital emergency." His goal is to halve the divorce rate in his state by 2010, reduced from 6.1 per 1000 to about 3 per 1,000.
- Each party must keep a record of all support payments made or received, as the case may be, including the date and amount of each payment. In the event of a dispute, those records are indispensable.
- State Governor Mike Huckabee signed a covenant marriage law in 2001 that allows couples to choose a marital contract that, in most cases, would require a two-year waiting period before a divorce becomes final.
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