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ChAPtEr 9
Conclusions, Predictions,
and Prognostications
Marriage may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and
those within despair to get out.
—Montaigne
No-fault divorce may have become increasingly popular as a
legal doctrine, but when I listen to my clients talk, it is obvious
to me that they are a long way from truly accepting almost any
divorce as being “no fault.”
Many authorities have now come to question the entire philo-
sophical underpinning of the no-fault divorce movement. No-fault
was originally considered to be a breakthrough divorce reform,