More on divorce
A reader offers advice to the American reader wondering about the process for divorcing his Japanese wife.
The U.S. Embassy Web site mentioned in the previous Lifelines column makes the important point that in the United States, divorce is a matter of state law.
This means each state sets its own conditions for divorce and recognition of divorces that occur in other places.
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