Research On Divorce Law Of USA In The 20th Century

Changes in American society is a linear process. The divorce law reform of the United States in the 20 th century is also not achieved overnight but a gradual process from the general social demand to special groups demand to the use of the legal system of government to regulate. In 19 th century, the divorce law reform in the United States has achieved initial clues, the feminist movement began to prevail. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly describe the change process before the reform from the angle of social and historical background, which is important from quantitative change to the qualitative change. As we study the Chinese divorce law in twenty-first century, it is inevitable to follow the tradition of women's rights in twentieth century.In the first part, through the introduction of the political, economic and legal development of 19 th century American society, especially the change of the role of women in the society and family, and the influence of the divorce law of the feminist movement during this period, the paper derives continually growing of social divorce demand and the related changes of divorce law of the United States in the 19 th century. Those changes play a good theoretical and social basis for the reform of divorce law of the United States in the 20 th century, and enable us to get a better understanding of the divorce law reform of the United States in the 20 th century. The second part introduces the social background and the main content of the divorce law reform in twentieth century, and the influence of the feminist movement on the reform of divorce law in this period. The third part mainly review the United States divorce law reform of the 20 th century from three aspects—— the judicial application after the reform, advantages and disadvantages of "no fault divorce" after the reform, the relationship between the rise rate of social divorce and "no fault divorce".Therefore, the paper is not simply describe the content and the existing problems of the divorce law reform in the 20 th century, but elaborate the historical background of the divorce law reform of the United States by the feminist movement as the breakthrough point in the 20 th century. Especially, the paper focuses on the impact of feminist movement for the divorce law reform. And it discuss the process of changes of the divorce law of United States in the twentieth century and the role of the feminist movement in the reform. The impact of the feminist movement on the divorce law reform of the United States in the twentieth century is the innovation of this paper.