In dozens of interviews, lawyers, academics and divorcing
spouses said that despite the law's honorable intent, it is exacting a steep
toll. For some more affluent couples, the law is creating shifts in income that
don't level the playing field so much as turn it upside-down, transforming the
richer spouse into the poorer one, sometimes dramatically so.
No independent measure of the law is yet available. Still, a
host of legal associations, including the Women's Bar Association of the State
of New York, have called for its repeal.
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