The article states:
- In Florida, as in most states, the alimony system works mostly as it should. Ninety-five percent of those who divorce settle out of court, and judges often make fair decisions, legal experts say.
This is BS. The blogger Dalrock addressed this recently. Imagine you're being mugged by a bunch of thugs. The thug tells you, "hey man, you can give us all your money, or you can resist, and then we'll beat the shit out of you, *and then* take all your money. Which do you want?" According to the logic of the legal experts, if you chose the first option, of handing your money over *without* a beating, it must be fair. After all, you chose it.
If the guy knows he's going to get a raw deal in court, the fact that he 'settled out of court' doesn't mean he got a fair deal. It just means a court resolution would have been even more expensive. That 95% of cases are settled out of court says nothing of alimony's fairness towards the higher earner i.e. the man in most cases.
And who are these legal experts? They couldn't possibly be the people who benefit from all that money expended on divorce, like divorce lawyers and divorce court judges. Nope, nothing to see here folks, just disinterested scholars.