Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label divorce. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Lysistrata in Kiryat Joel

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  Kiryas Joel is a Hasidic community in New York State, in which ancient religious traditions can come into conflict with modern customs.  ...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Will divorce become legal in the Philippines?

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  The NYT has the story: ‘Just Like Medicine’: A New Push for Divorce in a Nation Where It’s Illegal.   A campaign in the Philippines that f...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

No divorce in Missouri while pregnant

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The post-Roe change in the availability of abortions will have many consequences, not all of them obvious.  It may prevent some divorces in ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Exorcism: "Mistress dispellers" in China

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The NY Times has the story:  China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ "Mistress-dispelling services, incr...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Venture capital for lawsuits

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There are lots of different kinds of financial markets, of which venture capital is among the most interesting and varied. Nevertheless, th...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Maryland courts: same sex divorce isn't repugnant, even if marriage is

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Two weeks ago I reported on the Maryland court case about whether a same sex couple who got married in California could divorce in Maryland...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Same-sex divorce: A predictable repugnant transaction?

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A same sex couple who got married in California when same-sex marriages were briefly legal there, wants to get divorced in Maryland, where t...
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Divorce in Malta

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The BBC reported a few weeks ago on the retreat of another formerly-more-widely repugnant transaction, divorce. Malta has voted "Yes...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Wife sales

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File under 'formerly not as repugnant as now..." Wife Sales , by Peter T. Leeson , Peter J. Boettke, Jayme S. Lemke,  June 7, 201...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The market for divorce

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Tyler Cowen at MR links to a NY Times story about a divorce themed trade fair in Italy: Divorce Trade Fair Shows Changing Italian Culture It...