{"id":28685,"date":"2025-08-20T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=28685"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:52:48","slug":"all-families-have-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/all-families-have-divorces\/","title":{"rendered":"All Families Have Divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From a while back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you think divorce \u201cnever happened in \u2018our\u2019 family,\u201d check for one anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s possible the couple divorced and no one in the family mentioned it. It is possible a divorce case was initiated and not completed. It\u2019s possible that there was a court case for \u201cseparate maintenance\u201d (where there\u2019s no \u201cdivorce,\u201d but the couple lives apart). In all three cases, the testimony and details in the court packets may be similar (particularly in terms of possibly providing a date and place of marriage). Children may or not be mentioned in these cases, particularly if they are of legal age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s possible that there was no court action of any type, but the couple maintained separate households. My great aunt and uncle did that until their deaths in the 1980s\u2013living in houses directly across the street from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; Even if you think divorce \u201cnever happened in \u2018our\u2019 family,\u201d check for one anyway. It\u2019s possible the couple divorced and no one in the family mentioned it. It is possible a divorce case was initiated and not completed. It\u2019s possible that there was a court case for \u201cseparate maintenance\u201d (where there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}