We live in an age of online storytelling, but few narratives have captured the collective frustration of the public quite like a TikTok chronicle shared by content creator and palliative care nurse Hadley Vlahos, known online as @nursehadley. In a multi-part breakdown of what many commenters called an “archaic” legal framework, Hadley explained that she had been unable to get the courts to let her out of her strained marriage.
She has since highlighted the series on her profile. In it, she takes aim squarely at Mississippi’s highly restrictive family laws. While the vast majority of the United States has shifted toward more accessible no-fault divorce structures, Mississippi appears stuck in a legal time capsule.
