Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 17, 2011 / 14:05 pm
The Supreme Court of Mexico's decision to uphold a “fast track divorce” law promotes the destruction of the family, various family experts are warning.
On March 8 the Supreme Court declared the reforms carried out in October 2008 by the Mexico City Legislative Assembly to be constitutional. The legislation allows one spouse to request and obtain a divorce without the agreement of the other.
The law requires that petitioners have been married at least for one year, that one of the spouses wishes to divorce and that his or her most recent address be in Mexico City.
Speaking with the news service of the Archdiocese of Mexico, Patricia Becerra, an expert on the theology of marriage, said the approval of the norm will result in “the trivialization of marriage and an aberration, because it violates two significant juridical principles.”