 v. State of North Carolina" case from 1942, American law in this area has changed in two distinct but related ways.“First, all 50 states (as of 1985) now permit the dissolution of marriage on at least one ‘no fault’ ground.Second, in a variety of contexts the Supreme Court has recognized not only a constitutional right to marry but a broad freedom of intimate association.” It is unlikely that a state would go to such great lengths to preserve a marriage against the will of one spouse and that the trial would be given the same weight today that it was given in the 1940s.