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Federal Taxation Of Alimony Arrangements, Henry D. Collins

West Virginia Law Review

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Alimony In Indiana: Traditional Concepts V. Benefit To Society

Indiana Law Journal

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Divorce For Temperamental Incompatibility, Lester B. Orfield

Michigan Law Review

One not acquainted with American or Continental legal history might conclude that temperamental incompatibility as a ground for divorce is a novel and radical innovation. In fact, such divorces have been possible from the beginning of our history. Legislatures granted divorces until the last quarter of the nineteenth century. 'We are told that the legislature was appealed to in cases that were too flimsy or too whimsical for the courts."

About a century ago and for more than a generation later at least nine states had "omnibus clauses in their divorce statutes broad enough to include incompatibility of temper." No …