Episode 460 – Overthrowing Family Law

Co-Host: Judith Kaluzny - Divorce Lawyer/Mediator and Author

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Plenty of us as men have not only had our run-ins with what’s commonly known as the family law system, we feel as if we’ve been thoroughly shafted by it. Well, my guest is a retired divorce lawyer and mediator who is out to overthrow the family law system as we know it.

Judith Kaluzny is the author of two books, Marriage License Handbook: Rules Of The Road For Getting Married and her upcoming one The American Way of Divorce: A Fraud on Families. Basically, Judith says we need to quit the systems designed with an adversary process as the default, and start over with a mediation system.

She says that’s because the divorce industry profits at the expense of the wife, husband and especially the children. The costs are financial, emotional and, for young children, developmental.

So then, what are the pros and cons of mediating a divorce vs. litigating? What should marital property rules be? Should there be a marriage contract, like we see routinely in business?

How does domestic violence factor in? As far as children go, Judith has seven (!) and believes strongly in ‘parenting plans’ instead of custody battles.

What should a relational agreement with a woman look like? And finally, what I think is the centerpiece of her overall position, her argument for post-nuptial agreements rather than simply pre-nups.

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