1.0 link 107413 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-benedict/why-massachusetts-divorce_b_107413.html On Friday, I published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on the particular injustices of Massachusetts alimony laws, which inflict grave financial and emotional hardships on young and middle-age, middle-class people in no-fault divorces. The current laws are so extreme that two prominent lawyers told me that they believe they have "a chilling effect on marriage" in the state. Even prenups don't help, because judges routinely ignore them. (N.B. Don't count on the lawyer who does your prenup to...

]]> 2008-06-24T05:12:00-04:00