Marlene Pontrelli was recently quoted in an ABA Journal article, “When does a marriage become a legal trap?”
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Marlene Pontrelli was recently quoted in an ABA Journal article, “When does a marriage become a legal trap?” discussing covenant marriage, a voluntary but restrictive contract limiting grounds for divorce. Marlene recalls a particularly disturbing divorce case involving alleged emotional abuse. What could have been a fairly seamless process was anything but because the couple in question was part of a covenant marriage. To read more, click here.
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Marlene Pontrelli
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