The lawyers were the ones who went for this. Paid politicians to pass it everywhere. Then the govt set up separate unconstitutional “family courts” and the entire court industry makes ovr 50 billion a year taking money away from families having problems.
That is very sad. The divorce cottage industry. I divorced at the same time as a friend. My ex and I sat at a coffee shop and went over the documents together that we printed from online. We came to agreements on everything. We filed ourselves, and paid about $200.
My friend and her ex only spoke through lawyers, and each attorney said to his client, “Now we are going to have to attack them on THIS really hard, in case they do it first...” it was really just a looong fit between two attorneys. The arguments went on for a couple of years and cost each party tens of thousands of dollars.
Anyone divorcing should cheat the LAWYERS out of this scam and just agree to everything on your own.