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that made divorce easier were followed by significant increases in divorce rates. The effect of no-fault legislation was …
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This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to “easier divorce” that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a...
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legislation on divorce rates in Mexico, given the remarkable growth of divorce rates over the past few decades in the country, but … legislation has proved to be an effective tool in modifying family structures in Mexico, so it is important to be aware of the … unilateral legislation. This paper is the first one to address the effect of adopting unilateral divorce in the context of a …
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legislation on divorce rates in Mexico, given the remarkable growth of divorce rates over the past few decades in the country, but … legislation has proved to be an effective tool in modifying family structures in Mexico, so it is important to be aware of the … unilateral legislation. This paper is the first one to address the effect of adopting unilateral divorce in the context of a …
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that "made divorce easier" were followed by significant increases in divorce rates. The effect of no-fault legislation was … rates ; legislation …
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that made divorce easier were followed by significant increases in divorce rates. The effect of no-fault legislation was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780480
This paper investigates the likelihood of an unpartnered birth as a function of laws regulating the division of joint property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and assuming that on average women earn less than men, we predict that women are less likely to have an...
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This essay is based on a featured lecture that I gave as part of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal's 2 symposium on a proposed right of publicity law in New York. The essay draws from my recent book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, published by Harvard...
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Emboldened by the Spitzenkandidaten process, the new European Commission emerges as the most political yet. The Commission asks EU citizens to judge its operation by its ability ‘to deliver solutions to the big issues that cannot be addressed by the Member States alone’. The Better...
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Legislative drafting mistakes can upset statutory schemes. The Affordable Care Act was nearly undone by such mistakes. The recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is rife with them. Traditional legal scholarship has examined whether courts should help resolve Congress's mistakes. But courts have remained...
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