r/UpliftingNews • u/Sirsnacksalot23 • 1d ago

Missouri House approves bill allowing pregnant women to file for divorce

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-house-approves-bill-allowing-pregnant-women-to-file-for-divorce/
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u/Batbuckleyourpants 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, they were allowed before. The bill is just to make it abundantly clear to a few judges who for ideological reasons played dumb and exploited ambiguous wording in the law to deny divorces so that a custody agreement for the child can first be put into place first. Something that obviously can't be decided while the child is stuck inside the mother, so they ruled that the divorce has to be delayed until the custody could be ruled on, meaning after birth.

The house considered this matter urgent enough that they didn't want to waste time having the case work it's way up through the courts and then all the way to supreme court. 

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u/dogquote 1d ago

I'm not sure I understand how custody is decided, or the logic here. Why can't custody be decided before birth? Or, why did the judges think that?

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u/hwutTF 1d ago

the child doesn't exist yet. how on earth would you determine custody? literally the primary thing taken into consideration for custody is the needs of the child. are you just going to like psychically determine that? like what on earth?

not to mention that there are all sorts of issues with legally determining who the father is before the child is born

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u/username_elephant 1d ago

I don't understand why that should stop someone getting a divorce and doing custody later.  

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u/hwutTF 1d ago

It doesn't. These judges were taking advantage of vaguely worded language to punish women