Divorce, Legal Rules, and Free Spirits
- Author(s):
- Margaret Brinig, Francis H. Buckley
- Posted:
- 1995
- Law & Economics #:
- 95-09
ABSTRACT:
This article critiques divorce law irrelevance theories which hold that the shift from fault to no-fault divorce laws did notincrease divorce levels. We show why from a theoretical perspective the reverse is more plausible; and present new evidence that the adoption of no-fault divorce laws did result in higher divorce levels.