If a woman wanted a divorce, she simply put her husband's personal items outside the home and they were divorced.

For centuries the Cherokees and other American Indian tribes passed property through the females. Thus women controlled the family assets. Weddings were elaborate, but marriages lasted only as long as both partners were happy (Most marriages lasted a lifetime and there were few divorces).
Loss of shelter and other property deterred husbands from divorce, but should a man want a divorce, he simply took his personal items and left. They were divorced. The home and children remained
with the wife who was helped with hunting, etc. by the tribe.
If a woman wanted a divorce, she simply put her husband's personal items outside the home and they were divorced.
Great system! And even though some Cherokee families sent their young men to Oxford to study law and even before the Trail of Tears there were practicing lawyers in the tribe, no lawyer was involved in divorce.