Beverly Willett spent five years and thousands of dollars contesting her divorce in court and lost. Now that New York has become the 50th state to adopt no-fault divorce, she's "heartsick" that others won't have the same opportunity to impoverish themselves and tie up the courts in a grim struggle for control. Willett's essay in the Daily Beast is the most compelling argument for no-fault divorce I've ever read. 

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