• BlanketsWithSmallpox
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    6 months ago

    Not really, but it’s more about child custody and child support if already married.

    https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/posts-distort-missouri-divorce-law-regarding-pregnancy/

    Nowhere in Missouri law does it say pregnant women are barred from getting divorced.

    But a judge handling a case where one party is pregnant may wait to finalize that divorce until the baby is born, which, experts told us, is done in order to consolidate custody and child-support agreements with other end-of-marriage arrangements.

    This can happen in other states, too.

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      Still dangerous because the husband is empowered to make medical decisions in certain cases