California became the first state to implement no-fault divorce, meaning that couples could divorce each other without citing fault or accusing each other of any wrongdoing. Feminists today argue whether or not this is beneficial to women involved in San Diego family law. Many disagreements have stemmed from the debate of enacting no-fault divorce in other states like New York, where some argue that because women are less financially secure than their husbands, they may be less successful in negotiations.

However, many experts say that both men and women tend to benefit from no-fault divorce cases, in that they are generally cheaper, shorter, and less volatile. While more conservative states have consistently lobbied for making divorces harder to obtain, some research shows that easier divorces can be attributed to less domestic violence. In fact, recent research by an economist at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that easier divorces have reduced domestic violence within marriages by a third.

San Diego divorce lawyers, however, often report that their female clients don’t usually come out with the upper hand. While no-fault divorce in California may reduce the amount of often ugly confrontation, some studies show that women coming out of this type of divorce see a drop in standard living by 70% while men’s rise 40%, although the reliability of these results is questioned.

This type of inequality observed not just in California, but in other states as well, has lead female powered law firms like that of San Diego divorce attorney Marie Backes in San Diego.

Ms. Backes, who spent three years going through her own “nasty” divorce, which involved the distribution of a substantial estate and a contentious custody battle, began a law firm based on addressing and easing the pain involved in breaking up the family. Her family law clientele includes husbands and wives with multimillion-dollar estates and parents whose only real asset is their children. The Backes firm focuses on every aspect of family law, including dissolution and division of assets and debts, fraud and concealment of assets, San Diego child custody and support, spousal support and attorney fees, domestic violence and restraining orders, the protection of client assets through prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements, and many more.

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