Alimony is a contentious topic often argued over during divorce. Individuals getting divorced seek fairness in an alimony settlement, but due to how laws are written this can seem arbitrary. Public policy suggests should reflect the suggestions of people it affects. Thus, public perception important component discussion what fair for spouses. In addition, infidelity marriage might change views ...

The UF College of Law has a course entitled Economics of the Family. Developed as part of the Family Law Certificate Program, the class covers the quantitative aspects of Family Law: alimony, child support, distribution of property, marriage contracts, social security, child care and elder care costs, adoption expenses, education expenses, heart balm actions, the tax consequences of each topic,...

An equivalence scale is a measure of the cost of living of a household of a given size and demographic composition, relative to the cost of living of a reference household (usually a single adult), when both households attain the same level of utility or standard of living. Equivalence scales are dif cult to construct because household utility cannot be directly measured, which results in econo...

This is a companion paper to Ambrus, Field and Torrero (2009). We extend the theoretical analysis of a marriage market with prenuptial agreements to a dynamic setting, in which individuals can reenter the marriage market after failed marriages. We show that the qualitative conclusions of the static analysis remain valid in the dynamic framework. Additionally, we provide examples, both in the st...