Community property means person1 and person2 are going to get 1/2 of the assets earned during the marriage. You can get there cheaply or expensively. Lawyers

Community property means person1 and person2 are going to get 1/2 of the assets earned during the marriage. You can get there cheaply or expensively. Lawyers get paid when you get there expensively -- and thus have an obvious incentive to inflame a negotiation between two aggrieved parties. I'm not sure why that makes me judgmental about their private lives.