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The Marriage Buyout
The Troubled Trajectory of U.S. Alimony LawFamilies, Law, and Society, Band 4
49,99 € |
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Verlag: | NYU Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 14.05.2014 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780814725320 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>From divorce court to popular culture, alimony<br>is a dirty word. Unpopular and rarely ordered, the awards are frequently<br>inconsistent and unpredictable. The institution itself is often viewed as an<br>historical relic that harkens back to a gendered past in which women lacked the<br>economic independence to free themselves from economic support by their spouses.<br>In short, critics of alimony claim it has no place in contemporary visions of<br>marriage as a partnership of equals. But as Cynthia Lee Starnes argues in The<br>Marriage Buyout, alimony is often the only practical tool for ensuring that divorce does not treat<br>today’s primary caregivers as if they were suckers. Her solution is to<br>radically reconceptualize alimony as a marriage buyout.<br><br>Starnes’s buyouts draw on a partnership model of marriage that reinforces<br>communal norms of marriage, providing a gender-neutral alternative to alimony<br>that assumes equality in spousal contribution, responsibility, and right. Her<br>quantification formulae support new default rules that make buyouts more<br>certain and predictable than their current alimony counterparts. Looking beyond<br>alimony, Starnes outlines a new vision of marriages with children, describing a<br>co-parenting partnership between committed couples, and the conceptual basis<br>for income sharing between divorced parents of minor children. Ultimately,<br>under a partnership model, the focus of alimony is on gain rather than loss and<br>equality rather than power: a spouse with disparately low earnings isn’t a<br>sucker or a victim dependent on a fixed alimony payment, but rather an equal<br>stakeholder in marriage who is entitled at divorce to share any gains the<br>marriage produced.</p>
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