The current issue of The Economist contains an article on the variety of divorce laws worldwide and the implications for divorcing multi-national couples. For the online version of the article, click here. Following is a short excerpt of the article:
International marriages are crumbling with the global economy, revealing unseen pitfalls in cross-border divorce law. Good news for lawyers.
Well, good news for comparative lawyers. Their expertise proves more precious than ever. In international divorce cases, a thorough knowledge of foreign divorce laws is indispensable, for, according to The Economist article,
ending up in the wrong legal system, or with the wrong approach, may mean not just poverty but misery.
Family law is just one example for the importance of a decent knowledge of foreign legal systems. Yet, at the same time, family law is especially affected by social values, religious ideology and political choices. Thus, international harmonization has proven incredibly difficult in this particular area of law. En bref, still much work to do for comparative lawyers!
