Question: Was legal divorce granted to patriot women?
About the article "American Revolution", section "Role of women".

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Chile legalized divorce in 2004, overturning an 1884 legal code.
The law that legalized divorce is the New Civil Marriage Law and was first introduced as a bill in 1995; there had been previous divorce bills before, but this one managed to secure enough conservative and liberal support to pass.
Now with divorce legal, the four marital statuses that exist within Chile are: married, separated, divorced, and widow(er).
Only the divorced and widow(er) statuses allow a new marriage.
Before the legalization of divorce, the only way to leave a marriage was to obtain a civil annulment, and annulments were only granted by telling the civil registrar that the spouse had lied in some way concerning the marriage license, thereby voiding the marriage contract. 
Women contributed to the American Revolution in many ways, and were involved on both sides.
While formal Revolutionary politics did not include women, ordinary domestic behaviors became charged with political significance as Patriot women confronted a war that permeated all aspects of political, civil, and domestic life.
They participated by boycotting British goods, spying on the British, following armies as they marched, washing, cooking, and tending for soldiers, delivering secret messages, and in a few cases like Deborah Samson, fighting disguised as men.
Also, Mercy Otis Warren held meetings in her house and cleverly attacked Loyalists with her creative plays and histories.
Above all, they continued the agricultural work at home to feed their families and the armies.
They maintained their families during their husbands' absences and sometimes after their deaths.
American women were integral to the success of the boycott of British goods, as the boycotted items were largely household items such as tea and cloth.
Women had to return to knitting goods, and to spinning and weaving their own cloth — skills that had fallen into disuse.
In 1769, the women of Boston produced 40,000 skeins of yarn, and 180 women in Middletown, Massachusetts wove of cloth.
A crisis of political loyalties could disrupt the fabric of colonial America women's social worlds: whether a man did or did not renounce his allegiance to the King could dissolve ties of class, family, and friendship, isolating women from former connections.
A woman's loyalty to her husband, once a private commitment, could become a political act, especially for women in America committed to men who remained loyal to the King.
Legal divorce, usually rare, was granted to Patriot women whose husbands supported the King.
  1860  USA, New York: Married women granted the right to control their own earnings  USA, Maryland: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Maryland: Married women granted the right to control their earnings  USA, Maryland: Married women granted trade license  New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870)  USA, Massachusetts: Married women granted trade licenses  1861  France: Julie-Victoire Daubié becomes the first female student.
Iceland: Legal majority for unmarried women  Russia: The Scientific- and Medical Surgery Academy open laboratories for women (retracted in 1864)  Sweden: The first public institution of higher academic learning for women, Högre lärarinneseminariet, is opened.
Sweden: The dentist profession is opened to women  USA: Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first female dentist.
USA, Illinois: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Ohio: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Illinois: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Ohio: Married women granted control over their earnings  1863  Denmark: Colleges open to women  Norway: Legal majority for unmarried women (at the same age as men in 1869)  Sweden: The Post- and telegraph professions are opened to women   1864  Bohemia: Taxpaying women and women in "learned profession" eligible to the legislative body  Finland: Legal majority for unmarried women.
Haiti: Elementary schools for girls are founded  Sweden: Unmarried women are granted the same rights within trade and commerce as men  Sweden: Husbands are forbidden to abuse their wives.
Sweden: The gymnastics profession is open to women   1865  Ireland: Married Women's Property (Ireland) Act 1865  Italy: Legal majority for unmarried women  Italy: Equal inheritance  Italy: A married woman is allowed to become the legal guardian of her children and their property if abandoned by her husband  Romania: The educational reform grant all Romanians access to education, which, at least formally, gave also females the right to attend school from elementary education to the university.
USA, Louisiana: Married women allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse 1867  Switzerland: Zürich University formally open to women, though they had already been allowed to attend lectures a few years prior  USA, Alabama: Married women granted separate economy  USA, New Hampshire: Married women granted separate economy  1868  Croatia: The first high school open to females  USA, North Carolina: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Arkansas: Married women granted trade license  USA, Kansas: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Kansas: Married women granted trade license  USA, Kansas: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, South Carolina: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name  USA, Georgia: Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name  1869  Austria-Hungary: The profession of public school teacher is open to women  Costa Rica: Elementary education compulsory for both girls and boys  Great Britain: Girton College, Cambridge.
Ottoman Empire: The law formally introduce compulsory elementary education for both boys and girls.
Russia: University Courses for women are opened, which opens the profession of teacher, law assistant and similar lower academic professions for women (in 1876, the courses are no longer allowed to give exams, and in 1883, all outside of the capital is closed).
Sweden: Women allowed to work in the railway office   USA: Arabella Mansfield becomes the first woman to enter the practice of law.
USA, Minnesota: Married women granted separate economy  1870  Finland: Women allowed to study at the universities by dispensation (dispensation demand dropped in 1901)   Great Britain: Married Women's Property Act 1870  India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870  Mexico: Married women granted separate economy  Ottoman Empire: The Teachers College for Girls are opened in Constantinople to educate women to professional teachers for girls school; the profession of teacher becomes accessible for women and education accessible to girls.
Sweden: Universities open to women (at the same terms as men 1873) the first female student is Betty Pettersson.
USA, Georgia: Married women granted separate economy   USA, South Carolina: Married women granted separate economy  USA, South Carolina: Married women granted trade license  USA, Tennessee: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Iowa: Married women granted control over their earnings  1871  Japan: Women are allowed to study in the USA (though not yet in Japan itself)  New Zealand: Universities open to women  USA, Mississippi: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Mississippi: Married women granted trade license  USA, Mississippi: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Arizona: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Arizona: Married women granted trade license  1872  Austria-Hungary: Women allowed to work in the post- and telegraph office  Canada: Dominion Lands Act grant mothers without husbands homestead land.
Japan: The geisha as well as the prostituted women are freed from guardianship and granted legal majority and the right to change profession  Japan: Compulsory elementary education for both girls and boys   Sweden: Women are granted the right to choose marriage partner and arranged marriages are thereby banned (the noblewomen, however, not granted the same right until 1882)   Switzerland: The universities of Bern and Geneva open to women (Lausanne follow in 1876 and Basel in 1890)  USA, Pennsylvania: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, California: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Montana: Married women granted separate economy  USA, California: Married women granted trade license  USA, California: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Wisconsin: Married women granted control over their earnings  1873  Great Britain: Custody of Infants Act 1873; Mothers granted guardianship for children at divorce.
USA, Arkansas: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Kentucky: Married women granted separate economy  USA, North Carolina: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Kentucky: Married women granted trade license  USA, Arkansas: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Delaware: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Iowa: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Nevada: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Iowa: Married women granted trade license  USA, Nevada: Married women granted trade license  USA, Nevada: Married women granted control over their earnings  1874  Netherlands: Aletta Jacobs becomes the first woman allowed to study medicine.
Sweden: Married women granted control over their own income  France: First trade union open to women.
Japan: The profession of public school teacher is opened to women   USA, Massachusetts: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, New Jersey: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Rhode Island: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, New Jersey: Married women granted trade licenses  USA, Colorado: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Illinois: Married women granted trade license  USA, Minnesota: Married women granted trade license  USA, Montana: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Montana: Married women granted trade license  USA, Colorado: Married women granted trade license  USA, Colorado: Married women granted control over their earnings  1875  Denmark: Universities open to women  USA, Delaware: Married women granted separate economy  1876  Great Britain: Universities open to women   Italy: Universities open to women.
Netherlands:Universities open to women   USA, New Hampshire: Married women granted trade licenses  USA, Wyoming: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Wyoming: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Wyoming: Married women granted trade license  1877  Chile: Universities open to women   Italy: Women can serve as witnesses to legal acts  Scotland: Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act 1877.
USA, Connecticut: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Connecticut: Married women granted trade licenses  USA, Dakota: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Dakota: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Dakota: Married women granted trade license  1878  Austria-Hungary: Women allowed to attend university lectures as guest auditors   Bulgaria: Elementary education for both sexes  Finland: Equal inheritance  Great Britain: Women can secure a separation on the grounds of cruelty, claim custody of their children and demand spousal and child support.
Abused wives granted separation orders  Great Britain: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford  USA, Virginia: Married women granted separate economy  1879  Brazil: Universities open to women  France: Colleges and secondary education open to women  India: The first college open to women, Bethune College.
USA, Indiana: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Indiana: Married women granted control over their earnings  1880  Australia : Universities open to women   Belgium: The university of Brussels open to women  Canada: Universities open to women.
Denmark: Married women granted the right to control their own income  France: Universities open to women  USA, Oregon: Married women granted trade license  USA, Oregon: Married women granted control over their earnings  1881  France: Women allowed to open a bank account in their own name  Scotland: Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act 1881  USA, Vermont: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Vermont: Married women granted trade license  USA, Nebraska: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Nebraska: Married women granted trade license  USA, Nebraska: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, Florida: Married women allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse  1882  Great Britain: Married Women's Property Act 1882  France: Compulsory elementary school for both genders   Nicaragua: The first public secular education institution for women, Colegio de Senoritas, open  Poland: The Flying University provides academic education for women.
1883  Belgium: Universities open to women   Romania: Universities open to women   Victoria, Australia: Married women granted separate economy   1884  Switzerland: Legal majority for unmarried women (including widows)   Norway: Universities open to women  Germany: Legal majority for unmarried women  Mexico: Legal majority for unmarried women and separate economy granted for married women   Ontario: Married women granted separate economy   Great Britain: Married Women's Property Act 1884  1885  France: Divorce legalized for both women and men   1886  Costa Rica: A public academic educational institution open to women  France: Married allowed to open a bank account without the consent of her husband  France: Women eligible to education boards  Great Britain: Guardianship of Infants Act 1886  Great Britain: Josephine Butler puts a stop to the prostitution reglement.
Guatemala: Married women granted separate economy  Korea: The first educational institution for women, Ewha Womans University  1887  Costa Rica: Legal majority for married women  Costa Rica: Married women granted separate economy  Mexico: Universities open to women   USA, Idaho: Married women granted separate economy  USA, Idaho: Married women granted trade license  1888  Costa Rica: Married women are allowed to be guardians and execute wills  Denmark: Fathers are forced to pay support to illegitimate children  Norway: Legal majority for married women  Montenegro: Legal majority for unmarried women   1889  Sweden: Women eligible to boards of public authority such as public school boards, public hospital boards, inspectors, poor care boards and similar positions  USA, State of Washington: Married women granted separate economy  USA, State of Washington: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, State of Washington: Married women granted trade license  1890  Great Britain: Matrimonial Causes Act 1890  Greece: Universities open to women  1891  Germany: Women are allowed to attend university lectures, which makes it possible for individual professors to accept female students if they wish  Portugal: The first medical university degree is granted to a woman   Switzerland: Secondary schools open to women  Switzerland: Trade unions open to women  USA: Marie Owens hired as a police officer in Chicago.
1893  France: Legal majority for unmarried and separated women   Great Britain: Married Women's Property Act 1893 grants married women control of property acquired during marriage.
1894  Poland: Kraków University open to women   USA, Louisiana: Married women granted trade license  1895  South Carolina in the United States: Separate economy allowed for married women.
Upper Canada: Women allowed to work as barristers.
Russia: A Women's medical university are opened, which opens the profession of physician for women  Austria-Hungary : Universities open to women  USA, Utah: Married women granted separate economy  USA, State of Washington: Married women granted control over their earnings  USA, State of Washington: Married women granted trade license  1896  USA : The profession of lawyer opened to both sexes – already in 1869, however, the first American state allowed women to practice law.
1897  France: Both married and unmarried women allowed to act as witness in a civil court and are thereby acknowledged as an individual in a juridical sense  1898  France: Women eligible to public charity boards  Haiti: The Medical University accept female students in obstetrics  1899  Denmark: Legal majority for married women  Egypt: A school for female teachers is founded in Cairo   France: Women allowed to practice law  Korea: The post office profession is open to women and thereby open the public work market for women   Tunisia: The first public elementary school for girls  Japan: The first Women's University   Baden, Germany: Universities open to women  Sweden: Maternity leave for female industrial workers  1901  Bulgaria: Universities open to women  Cuba: Universities open to women   Denmark: Maternity leave for all women  1904  Mexico: Divorce is legalized.
Nicaragua: Married women granted separate economy  Nicaragua: Legal majority for married women  Württemberg, Germany: Universities open to women  1905  Iceland: Educational institutions open to women  Russia: Universities open to women  1906  Finland (to stand for election).
Honduras: Married women granted separate economy  Honduras: Legal majority for married women  Honduras: Divorce is legalized   Korea: The profession of nurse is allowed for women  Nicaragua: Divorce is legalized   Sweden : Municipal suffrage, since 1862 granted to unmarried women, granted to married women   Saxony, Germany: Universities open to women  1907  France: Married women given control of their income   France: Women allowed guardianship of children  Great Britain: Matrimonial Causes Act 1907  Japan: Tohoku University, the first (private) coeducational university.
Norway (to stand for election).
Finland (first female Members of Parliament).
Uruguay: Divorce is legalized   1908  Belgium: Women may act as legal witnesses in court  Denmark: Juridical professions of lower rank open to women  Denmark: Unmarried women are made legal guardian of their children  Peru: Universities open to women  Prussia, Alsace-Lorraine and Hesse, Germany: Universities open to women  1909  Sweden: Women granted eligibility to municipal councils   Sweden: The phrase "Swedish man" are removed from the application forms to public offices and women are thereby approved as applicants to most public professions  Mecklenburg, Germany: Universities open to women  1910  Ecuador: Divorce is legalized   Korea: College courses for women (at Ewha Womans University).
1911  Portugal: Civil offices open to women  Portugal: Legal majority for married women (rescinded in 1933)  Portugal: Divorce legalized  1913  Japan: Public universities open to women  Portugal: The first university law degree is granted to a woman  1914  Russia: Married women allowed their own internal passport  1917  Cuba: Married women granted separate economy  Cuba: Legal majority for married women  Netherlands (to stand for election)  Mexico: Legal majority for married women  Mexico: Divorce legalized  1918  Cuba: Divorce is legalized   Nicaragua: The first female obtains a university degree  Soviet Russia: The first Soviet Constitution explicitly declares the equal rights of men and women.
Thailand: Universities open to women   1919  Italy: Married women granted separate economy  Italy: Public offices on lower levels are opened to women  Great Britain: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919.
1920  China: The first female students are accepted in the Peking University, soon followed by universities all over China.
Canada (to stand for election, with some restrictions/conditions).
Haiti: The apothecary profession open to women  Korea: The profession of telephone operator, as well as several other professions, such as store clerks, are open to women  Portugal: Secondary school open to women  Sweden: Legal majority for married women and equal marriage rights  1921  Belgium (to stand for election).
Belgium: The position of mayor, several lower public offices, such as financial adviser, open to women at local level  Thailand: Compulsory elementary education for both girls and boys   1922  Belgium: The profession of lawyer is open to women  Japan: Women are allowed to be present and political meetings and form political organizations   1924  Denmark: The first ever female minister in Western Europe is appointed, when Nina Bang is appointed Minister of Education by Thorvald Stauning.
1925  Chile: Married women granted separate economy  Korea: Professional school for women (at Ewha Womans University).
1926  Argentina: Married women granted separate economy  Turkey: Women are granted legal majority, are admitted to the universities, and the harems and the veil are abolished.
1927  Mexico: Legal majority for married women   1928  Mexico: Equal marriage law  1929  Haiti: The lawyer profession open to women  1930  Peru: Divorce is legalized   1931  China: The new Civil Code grant equal inheritance rights, the right for women to choose marriage partner, equal right to divorce and right to control their own property after divorce  Spain: Legal majority for married women (rescinded in 1939)  Spain: Equal right to profession (rescinded in 1939)  Spain: Divorce is legalized(rescinded in 1939)  1932  Bolivia: Divorce is legalized   Colombia: Legal majority for married women  Colombia: Married women granted separate economy  Romania: Married women granted legal majority.
1933  Colombia: Universities open to women   1934  Haiti: The physician profession open to women  Turkey (to stand for election)  1935  Iran: Women are admitted to Tehran University  1936  Colombia: The national University open to women   Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi set the mandatory unveiling of women—a highly controversial policy which nonetheless was significant for the desegregation of women  Peru: Married women granted separate economy  1937  Great Britain: Matrimonial Causes Act 1937  Puerto Rico (to stand for election).
1938  France: Legal majority for married women  Sweden: Contraception legalized.
1939  Sweden: Ban against firing a woman for marrying or having children.  
  Passed a resolution declaring New Zealand the Dominion of New Zealand in 1907, formally ending colonial status.
Granted women's suffrage in 1893.
Life membership in the upper house was reduced to a seven-year term.
The stranglehold of the Legislative Council was broken.
Women were granted practical equality and divorce rights.
The Divorce Act (1898), and the repeal (1910) of the Contagious Diseases Act removed various forms of legal discrimination against women.
A Defence Act was made law (1910) to introduce compulsory military training.
The Crimes Act (1910) introduced the “reformative detention” sentence, which ensured that a person could be held for a period long enough for necessary reform training to be undertaken.  
On an all-India level, the Special Marriage Act was passed in 1954, is an inter-religious marriage law permitting Indian nationals to marry and divorce irrespective of their religion or faith.
The Hindu Marriage Act, in 1955 which legally permitted divorce to Hindus and other communities who chose to marry under these acts.
Indian Divorce Act 1869 is the law relating to the divorce of person professing christain religion.
Divorce can be sought by husband or wife on certain grounds, including: adultery, cruelty, desertion for two years, religious conversion, mental abnormality, venereal disease, and leprosy.
Divorce is also legal based on mutual consent of both the spouses, which can be filed after at least one year of separated living.
Mutual consent divorce can not be appealed against, and the law mandates a minimum period of six months (from the time divorce is applied for) for divorce to be granted.
While a muslim husband can unilaterally bring an end to the marriage by pronouncing talaq, muslim women must have gone to the court under any of the grounds provided under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act.
Official figures of divorce rates are not available, but it has been estimated that 1 of 100 or another figure 11 of 1,000 marriages in India end up in divorce.
Various communities are governed by specific marital legislation, distinct to Hindu Marriage Act, and consequently have their own divorce laws:  The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936  The Dissolution of Muslim Marriage act, 1939  The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 An amendment to the marriage laws to allow divorce based on "irretrievable breakdown of marriage" (as alleged by one of the spouses) is under consideration in India.
In June 2010, the Union Cabinet of India approved the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010, which, if cleared by Parliament, would establish "irretrievable breakdown" as a new ground for divorce.