The Marriage Buyout : : The Troubled Trajectory of U.S. Alimony Law / / Cynthia Lee Starnes.
From divorce court to popular culture, alimonyis a dirty word. Unpopular and rarely ordered, the awards are frequentlyinconsistent and unpredictable. The institution itself is often viewed as anhistorical relic that harkens back to a gendered past in which women lacked theeconomic independence to fr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Families, Law, and Society ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Alimony reflections
- 1. Who cares about alimony?
- 2. Alimony’s heritage: the helpless, the blameless, and the clean-break losers
- 3. Alimony and mother myths
- Part II. Alimony mechanics
- 4. The contemporary state of alimony
- 5. Alimony in context: a comparative perspective
- Part III. Alimony theory
- 6. Reasons matter alimony, intuition, and the remarriage-termination rule
- 7. The search for a contemporary rationale
- Part IV. Alimony reform
- 8. A marital partnership model: alimony as buyout
- 9. Beyond alimony: lovers, parents, and partners
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the author