That’s very good news, and hopefully more states modernize their outdated marital laws.

It does raise the question in my mind of how male suicide rates would be affected by a revision of certain policies regarding male agency in marital and spousal relationships. The most obvious scenario being when a man gets a woman pregnant and isn’t prepared to be a father, but the woman is unwilling to abort the child or give it up for adoption. Closely followed by the skewed treatment of men and women in divorce proceedings, although I think that has been improving slightly in recent years.