Decoupling

Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Sisyphus goes to divorce court; 2. The right to decouple; 3. The divorce twofer: Why court behavior is decoupled from the right to decouple; 4. Studying judicial decision-making: Court decisions in Henan and Zhejiang; 5. 'Many cases, few judges' and the vanishing three-judge trial; 6. Tracing the origins of the divorce twofer to heavy caseloads; 7. How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce trials; 8. Divorce denials: Judicial discourse and judicial decision-making; 9. Fight or flight: Consequences of the judicial clampdown on divorce; 10. Possession is nine-tenths of the law: Why wife-beaters gain child custody; 11. Quantitative patterns in child custody determinations: Sons to fathers, daughters to mothers, abusers rewarded, victims punished; 12. Conclusions: Assessing the impact of law by observing judicial behavior; References; Index.

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• Direito e sociedade
• Direito de família: casamento e divórcio
• Tribunais e processos