Welcome to the Fun House: The Incredible Maze of Divorce Taxation
59 Pages Posted: 11 Jun 2008
Abstract
Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend continued through several sets of divorce tax reform.
Keywords: race, wealth, discrimination, class
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Moran, Beverly I., Welcome to the Fun House: The Incredible Maze of Divorce Taxation. Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 26, 1989, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1142948
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