- The Petition for Divorce is the initial document filed with the Tennessee court.
- Every divorce case that is filed in the state of Tennessee must declare the grounds in which the divorce is to be granted.
- Once of the more descriptive grounds for divorce in Tennessee which other states don't have quoted as a divorce statute is "Wife is pregnant by another at the time of marriage without husband?s knowledge."
- One of the states in the "Bible Belt" quoted as having high divorce rate.
- "Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma round out the Top Five in frequency of divorce...the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average" of 4.2/1000 people.
- The concept of "covenant marriage" is gaining ground among the politicians of Tennessee. The special marriage license requires that couples in trouble attend counseling and wait longer for a divorce to be granted.
- Covenant marriage is being pushed in the General Assembly by two Williamson County GOP lawmakers as one way to take on Tennessee's high divorce rate.
- About the covenant marriage law: Once joined in a covenant union, couples could divorce only for such things as abuse, abandonment and adultery. Otherwise, a divorce is granted after a waiting period of 18 months for couples with children and one year for those with no children.
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