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- Title
Making divorce easier: the role of no-fault and unilateral revisited.
- Authors
Bracke, Sietse; Mulier, Klaas
- Abstract
Currently, the divorce literature has mainly focused on the introduction of no-fault and unilateral divorce grounds to explain the positive relation between 'making divorce easier' and divorce rates. We use the case study of Belgium to demonstrate that both no-fault and unilateral might not be the ideal proxies for 'making divorce easier', because the procedural level of legislation is entirely disregarded. Therefore, we propose an alternative proxy which does manage to capture the time-varying legislative environment, namely the duration of the legal divorce process. We find that a reduction in the duration of the divorce process by a month increases the divorce trend with about 1.4 %.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; DIVORCE law; DIVORCE; COINTEGRATION; PROMISE (Law); UNILATERAL acts (Law)
- Publication
European Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0929-1261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10657-015-9485-0