Kansas House Bill 2667 yesterday was amended to include covenant marriage.   Divorce from a Kansas covenant marriage would be permissible only for “a complete and total breach of the marital covenant commitment.”  Couples desiring a covenant marriage would be required to obtain counseling prior to stating their commitment.

The House Bill originally was intended as a non-substantive technical reorganization of the Domestic Relations statutes in Kansas.  Before yesterday, substantive amendments were deliberately omitted from the bill.  The House Judiciary Committee was intending first to reorganize the statutes in a coherent, accessible form.  Substantive changes were supposed to have been raised later.