![]() Your benefit is derived emotionally and religiously from agreeing to additional marriage contract terms, namely terms that make it more difficult to get a divorce in the future. You are not “more” married in the eyes of the State of Arkansas or the general public if you signed the covenant agreement. There is no legal or financial benefit to being married under the covenant statute. ![]() The Benefits And Consequences of Covenant Marriage Divorce is hard whether you are married regularly or married covenantly and we need to smile whenever we can. It is a little humor in an otherwise quite depressing line of work. While not a technical term, we at Leigh Law call it a marriage on steroids! This is not meant to demean the value of marriage and the value that covenantly married parties derive from being married under the covenant marriage statute. It is critical to know, because the divorce process is more complicated if you are in a covenant marriage.Īrkansas is one of the few states that allows covenant marriage. Since covenant marriage has a special legal status under Arkansas law, we have to be certain and the best way to be sure is to obtain a copy of your marriage license. If you’re very involved in your church and were married by a minister or took classes before you married, you may be in a covenant marriage. Is your marriage a covenant marriage? I don’t know! You have to tell us. ![]() We recommend that you should definitely read that one here. That article is relevant to this discussion of special circumstances of covenant marriage. This Article is About Divorce of a Covenant Marriage in ArkansasĮarlier, we published an article on Grounds for Divorce in Arkansas. We also answer several of your most common questions on our FAQ page. ![]() ![]() For information about Leigh Law’s Family & Domestic Law services, click here. As well-seasoned divorce lawyers, we created a series of blogs for those of you thinking of divorce in Arkansas. ![]()
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