A Wedding Without a Marriage

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.In this debut episode of Breaking the Spell of No-Fault Divorce, the host presents a critical legal analysis arguing that modern no-fault statutes have quietly dismantled marriage as an enforceable legal status. Drawing on Jeff Morgan's active constitutional challenge to Texas Family Code Section 6.001 and historical contract jurisprudence dating back to Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), the host contends that unilateral "insupportability" grounds strip non-filing spouses of legal defenses and turn family courts into administrative rubber stamps. Distributed by Americans Against No-Fault Divorce (AANFD), the episode challenges popular narratives about the no-fault divorce system, reframing unilateral dissolution not as a triumph of personal freedom, but as a state-enforced "forced divorce" that undermines social stability, legal predictability, and family [email protected]