The original statute only provided for fault divorces. And you had to go through and show what the other person did that came to the level of what the courts accepted in order to give you a divorce. With much urging, after the Pennsylvania Divorce Code came in, we adopted what was adopted in a lot of other states, which was no-fault. And no-fault meant that you had – didn’t have to go and prove that the other person was a bad person or that the other person committed acts such as adultery or being – or anything like that. They basically clarified it so you could get a divorce by agreement or by being separated for a period of time.

Initially, the separation was three years. That was after negotiation with the Catholic Conference. And then it became two years after further negotiation. And most recently, it’s now one year.

So we’ve come into the modern times, where if you’re separated, you don’t have to go calling the other person bad and telling stories about the other person. You can just go through and come up with a divorce based on the time of separation or by agreement.

You couldn’t do this under the old statute. And people sometimes had to create fictional actions in order to get a divorce.

Or I can give you an example of a case I had many years ago where I had my client move. He sold his business and moved to Nevada, to Las Vegas, where in six weeks, you can get a no-fault divorce. So we’re in Pennsylvania. The litigation was going nowhere. He moved and bought a home in Nevada, Las Vegas, and in six weeks was able to get a divorce. So Pennsylvania came into the 20th century at a later time.