Divorced and Done

Getting Divorced before Canada was a country.


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Divorce lawyers Rob Woodward and Darren Schmidt help demystify the divorce process and get you on the path to becoming Divorced & Done. Send your questions or comments to [email protected], find us online at DivorcedAndDone.com.

This week, we're giving a broad overview of the history of Canada's 1968 Divorce Act, and how divorces worked (or didn't) in the 1800s.

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, D. Mendes De Costa, "The Divorce Act 1968, and Grounds for Divorce Based Upon Matrimonial Fault" (1970) https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2351&context=ohlj

Constance Backhouse, Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1991)

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Petticoats_and_Prejudice_Women_s_Press_C.html?id=gBksEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y


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