We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter … incentives as in the classical prisoners' dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers' fees, each spouse has … an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a simple institutional setting allowing for joint lawyers in order to overcome …

litigation costs and allow us to compute the pay-off matrix. We do not find evidence of a prisoner's dilemma, given that the …

empirical evidence of a cross-country positive association between the number of lawyers per capita and the extent of litigation …. For instance, Spain has more litigation and more lawyers per capita than most OECD countries. How should this association …