"Dr. Lorandos provides a general overview of Family Law" [He was a child psychologist for ~30 years and then went to law school]

This "Choose you this day whom ye will serve" has been a perennial problem:
A crisis of political loyalties could disrupt the fabric of colonial America women’s social worlds: whether a man did or did not renounce his allegiance to the King could dissolve ties of class, family, and friendship, isolating women from former connections. A woman’s loyalty to her husband, once a private commitment, could become a political act, especially for women in America committed to men who remained loyal to the King. Legal divorce, usually rare, was granted to Patriot women whose husbands supported the King... [45][46] -Main article: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_American_Revolution"] Women_in_the_American_Revolution[/ame]