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

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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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If the bill is also passed by the Assembly, New York will at last join the other 49 states in allowing people to divorce speedily without the consent of their spouse or a proof of fault.

ECONOMIST: Breaking up is a bit less hard to do