I’d prefer to suppose that with nearly 5 million divorces in the UK since the Nineteen Eighties (about a hundred and fifty,000 per year) we’d be starting to hear stories of what worked and what didn’t when a pair went by way of their separation. Canada did not have a federal divorce law until 1968. Before that point, the method for getting a divorce different from province to province. In Newfoundland and Quebec, it was essential to get a private Act of Parliament in order to finish a marriage. Most other provinces incorporated the English Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 which allowed a husband to break up on the grounds of his wife’s adultery and a spouse to get one only if she established that her husband dedicated any of a list of specific sexual behaviours but not merely adultery. Some provinces had laws permitting either spouse to get a …
