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California passed the first pure no-fault divorce law in the United States and some form of no-fault has been adopted in every state - but the divorce revolution it launched remains unfinished. Now specialists in the field have written a book that appraises the situation today, explains how we got where we are, and explores legislative options for the future.

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The law professors who author this edited volume provide a much needed synthesis of legal and social research. Although many case studies of policy-making exist and continue to proliferate, few take on the difficult task of providing an empirical assessment of policy impact and consequences. This work does, and does so admirably. Given that half of all US marriages end in divorce, the policy consequences of no-fault divorce are clearly important to scholar and layperson alike. The seven chapters combine empirical elements analyzing the effects of no-fault divorce and normative elements recommending new policy directions. Perhaps the most interesting findings are those that are at odds with popular wisdom: no-fault has not undermined the ability of women to obtain physical custody of their children nor has it resulted in women obtaining significantly less property and support than before. However, virtually all the authors point out that most women (and their children) face financial problems and a reduced standard of living after a divorce. To ameliorate that problem, the various authors suggest reforms ranging from nominal changes in the status quo to radical restructuring of society. This volume ties its chapters together in a well-integrated whole and represents an exemplary contribution to the literature of domestic relations and policy assessment. Scholarly endnotes provide an exhaustive survey of the literature. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -M. W. Bowers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Herma Hill Kay was born on August 18, 1934 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1956 and a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1959. She clerked for Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court before starting her tenure at Berkeley Law School in 1960. She was only the second woman to join Berkeley's law faculty.

She was an expert on family law, marital property law, and sex-based discrimination. She helped draft California's no-fault divorce law and the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act. She wrote articles on the history of women in the legal profession and seminal books of case law including Sex-Based Discrimination written with Kenneth Davidson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 1992, she became the first female dean of Berkeley Law School. She was dean until 1999 when she decided to return to teaching. She retired from teaching in 2016. She died on June 10, 2017 at the age of 82.

(Bowker Author Biography)