Editing Irreconcilable differences (section)

==United States==
In the [[United States]], this is one of several possible grounds. Often, it is used as justification for a [[no-fault divorce]]. In many cases, irreconcilable differences were the original and only grounds for no-fault divorce, such as in [[California]], which enacted America's first purely no-fault divorce law in 1969.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Have We Found Fault in No Fault Divorce?|journal=The Family Coordinator|author=Robbins, Norman N.|year=1973|pages=361|volume=23|issue=3}}</ref> California now lists one other possible basis, "permanent legal incapacity to make decisions" (formerly "incurable insanity"), on its divorce petition form.<ref name=California>{{cite web |url= https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fl100.pdf |title= Form FL-100 [Petition for the Dissolution of Marriage or Domestic Partnership] |date= 1 January 2020 |access-date= 12 April 2021}}</ref>

Any sort of difference between the two parties that either cannot or will not be changed can be considered an irreconcilable difference. A difference could be that of  a difference in [[Moral character|character]], [[personality]], [[Belief#Religion|belief]], or some other [[Trait_theory|personality trait]]. Some states use the terms [[wikt:irremediable|irremediable]] breakdown, [[wikt:irretrievable|irretrievable]] breakdown, or incompatibility. In some states where the official grounds is 'irreconcilable differences', the statutory definition of that term may include a  waiting period or a  mutual-consent requirement.{{fact|date=October 2016}}