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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic … violence, and child outcomes. …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
, division of property, child custody, and child support or maintenance payments. Reforms can have a range of social effects … beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422608
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Is marriage as good as a contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2018
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907027
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Divorced in a Flash : The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands
Kabatek, Jan - 2019
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870326
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Divorced in a flash : the effect of the administrative divorce option on marital stability in the Netherlands
Kabátek, Jan - 2019
Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979175
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Economics and Family Law
Dnes, Antony - 2018
Economists increasingly connect legal changes to behavioral responses that many family-law experts fail to see …. Incentives matter in families, which respond to changes in legal regulation. Changing incentive structures linked to family law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111441
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But who will get Billy? : the effect of child custody laws on marriage
Rose, Elaina; Wong, Crystal Ho Po - 2014
Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019
support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for …This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some …
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The Long Term Effects of Legalizing Divorce on Children
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2009
children's family formation or dissolution patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718158