Watters v. Watters’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"The comments to Act 1009 regarding an article 102 cause of action provide that the judgment of divorce be granted pursuant to a rule to show cause, after the 180 day waiting period, if there has been no reconciliation between the parties. The comments to La.C.C.P. article 3954 which concern abandonment of an article 102 action provide that if a party does not proceed with the filing of a rule to show cause within a reasonable time it is deemed abandoned. These comments express the legislature's intent that an action under article 102 is a stream-lined procedure for divorce that parties may opt to use. The requirements for an article 102 action are relatively few, the time delays are brief and the demands on the court are limited. The defendant is not even required to file an answer. Our reading of the comments do not suggest that a trial court must hear arguments on fault issues preliminary to or simultaneously with an article 102 rule to show cause."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 624 So. 2d 1295 - Veron v. Veron