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What does no-fault mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word no-fault? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (chiefly of motor insurance) in which a claimant is compensated for actual economic loss without blame being assigned to a particular party
  2. (of a divorce) in which neither party is assigned blame
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Of all the legal changes to marriage over the past 40 years, no-fault divorce has had the greatest impact on the institution.
Alongside its dramatic demographic consequences, no-fault divorce prompted a sea change in conventional understandings of marriage.
Since the invention of no-fault divorce laws, divorce rates have skyrocketed.
The current regime of no-fault divorce, for example, really amounts to unilateral divorce.
My husband and I, after a long time of careful thinking and talking, have decided to end our marriage with a no-fault dissolution.
Why, in this age of cynicism, sexual free-for-all and the quickie no-fault divorce, do people still get married?

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