So your husband chases you so he can beat you up, is that enough for divorce?

In Mississippi, the answer is “No.”

Heck, even if he knows the telephone out of your hand and it hits you in the face that’s not enough.

Call the police on him because he’s about to beat the crap out of you, is that enough?

Nope.

Let’s look at the case of Khari Alexander v. Amanda Alexander.

Amanda accused Khari of adultery after discovering e-mails from other women on his computer.

Khari admits he’s attracted to other women and having relationships with
women other than his wife, but he denied that any of the relationships were sexual in nature.

He wrote some of these women love poems.

Khari admitted to being alone with another woman in a hotel room at night, but he denied that he committed adultery.

Reverend Melvin Chapman testified he spoke with Khari about his relationship with Amanda.

According to Chapman, Khari had an encounter with a female in which he put on a condom, but Khari said that he and the female did not have intercourse.

Who believes this?  Does anyone believe Khari here?  Let me know if you do.

Chapman said he did not believe Khari.

Amanda testified that, during the marriage, Khari would threaten her and curse at her.

Amanda said, when Khari became violent, she attempted to call
the police, but Khari slapped the phone away from her and it hits her in the face.

Amanda tried to run to a neighbor’s house, and Khari chased Amanda down the street.

She eventually fled in her car.

On another occasion, Khari took Amanda’s keys out of her car while he was picking their child up for visitation.

Amanda called the police to get her keys back.

So, do you think that’s enough for divorce?

Nope.

You see we have this insane law in Mississippi where you have to prove habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.

What really needed to happen is Amanda needed to let Khari catch her several times when he was ticked off.

Amanda shouldn’t have run so fast so Khari could catch her and beat her up several times.

Then, after she let that happen she might get a divorce.

I say “might” because in Mississippi, getting beat up once may not be enough to get a divorce.

It’s insane.

I have no idea why any woman would continue to vote for her legislator

Yes, ladies it is partly your fault because you will keep voting for the same people repeatedly.

If there is any men out there who are voting for these legislators, the same is true for you.  It is partly your fault also.

STOP voting for the same people because you went to high school with them or you know their Momma or Daddy or some other such non-sense.

These legislators will look you right in the eye and tell you they support you and turn right around and stab you in the back.

So what did our Court of Appeals do in Amanda’s case?

The Court said this about habitual cruel and inhuman treatment: either endangers life, limb, or health, or creates a reasonable apprehension of such danger, rendering the relationship unsafe for the party seeking relief, or in the alternative, be so unnatural and infamous as to make the marriage revolting to the offending spouse and render it impossible for that spouse to discharge the duties of the marriage, thus destroying the basis for its continuance.

So what does that legal mumbo jumbo mean in English?

It means, as I said earlier, Amand should have run slower.

She should have let Khari catch her and beat the living crap out of her a few times and then she might have gotten a divorce.

Will Mississippi ever get out of the Middle Ages on this?

I wonder.