Dr. Judith Gerhart, CFP
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst 
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August 15, 2009
Liberal divorce laws often follow political revolutions
Another thing you didn’t know about divorce is that it had a role in killing or overthrowing the likes of Louis XVI, George III and Tsar Nicholas II.
Divorce has a chummy relationship with radical politics and the revolutions they bring about, according to Canadian historian Roderick Phillips. In Putting Asunder, his account of divorce in the West, he notes three examples: the slew of pro-divorce legislation that followed the American Revolution; the enactment in France in 1792 of history’s first no-fault divorce laws following the French Revolution; and Vladimir Lenin’s relaxed divorce laws in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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