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"No-fault divorce is a broken system." Or was it a community property state?

• teakettle42 5y ago
  It’s an “equitable distribution” state; property is divided without regard to marital misconduct or fault.
  • robbedpeter 5y ago
    For whatever it's worth, those laws were built around an idea of marriage that's very different than the institution as it exists today. Maybe it'd help if states were required to provide marriage applicants with property allocation statistics from the last year of divorces, and list every penalty and rule that would execute upon divorcing their spouse. Oh, showing how much money people pay in alimony, and how much divorce lawyers rake in would be good, too. Maybe fewer people would get married. Maybe it'd prompt some changes.
    • malcolmgreaves 5y ago
      That's a pre-nup
      • robbedpeter 5y ago
        More like a codified collection of what the default pre-nup is if you don't have one customized. Probably more than 80% of the married people I know fell into it without a whole lot of intention and planning, and it shows. "Marriage, because baby" is like compound interest, except it's compound stupid.