‘No-fault divorce could reduce marriage to a tenancy agreement’

Oct 20, 2017 by Jill

from The Christian Institute:

The liberalising of divorce law could be a “conveyor belt” for marriage breakdown, the Campaign Director of the Coalition for Marriage has said.

Thomas Pascoe was speaking out as part of a Radio 2 debate with Paddy O’Connell earlier this week.

Campaigners have been calling for a weakening of the law to introduce a ‘no fault’ divorce system.

Easy divorce

Catherine Thomas, Managing Director of Vardags’ divorce lawyers, said divorce should be made ‘an administrative process’.

“It should just be that if one person wants to leave their marriage they should be able to.”

But Pascoe warned against weakening the law.

He said a change in the law would put “abused and vulnerable people” at risk.

“Bullies will be able to put people into bad deals because we’re removing protections from the system.”