Hans Bader has made an interesting link between the number of lawyers and lawyer-intensive divorce laws in this article.
The head of the Virginia bar association is concerned because Virginia, which once had the highest percentage of lawyer-legislators in America, now ranks behind New York and Massachusetts and on par with New Jersey. Although I am a lawyer myself, I view this as cause for celebration, because the more lawyers are in a state legislature, the more unfair a state’s divorce laws tend to be, and the more anti-business they tend to be. The states with the weirdest, most lawyer-intensive divorce laws are New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts — states with lawyer-heavy legislatures. (Given the ideology of my classmates at Harvard Law School, this doesn’t surprise me).
Hans goes on to explore many freakish or bizarre cases that invite on-going litigation in a number of lawyer-heavy states.
September 8, 2008 at 3:12 pm |
As I was reading this article, all I could think about is the “potential” income of my husband’s ex-wife, who is degreed. My husband holds no degrees, and she hasn’t worked in at least a year. She knows exactly how to work the system, as long as she’s not working, her child support can not be lowered. I bet you a million dollars, in 3 years, when “her” child support disappears, she’s going to work her ass off! I need anger management after dealing with the primitive family courts in this stupid country! Thanks for the article, it was very insightful.