<P> In Argentina, the legalisation of divorce was the result of a struggle between different governments and conservative groups, mostly connected to the Catholic Church . </P> <P> In 1888, the Law 2,393 provided that marriage and divorce in Argentina be governed by the State, instead of the Church . The divorce consisted only in the personal separation of the spouses, without dissolving the marriage . The divorced were not authorized to a new marriage and in order to obtain a divorce it was to be approved by a judicial order . The causes in which it was allowed were adultery, insults, violence, or abandonment . </P> <P> Only in 1954, President Juan Domingo Perón, who was - at that time - in conflict with the Church, had the Law 14,394 passed for the first time in the country which admitted that divorcees could marry again . But Perón was forced out of the presidency one year later by a military coup, and the government that succeeded him, abolished the law . </P> <P> Since 1968 there was no need to prove the guilt of any of the parterns, but remarrying after a divorce was still banned . </P>

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