August marks the one-year anniversary of no-fault divorce becoming legal in all 50 states.

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According to a 2007 paper by Justin Wolfers at the Wharton School, divorce rates rose sharply after other states adopted no-fault divorce, but this trend reversed within a decade.

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The case was among the first to begin putting into practice a little-noticed provision in a package of laws passed in 2010 that more famously established no-fault divorce in New York.

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To understand the harm that could be done by an unlimited federal power to define the terms of domestic-relations law, Young recalls when a few states, venturing beyond the national consensus, began experimenting with no-fault divorce.

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