Divorce Season just passed

Parents in Spain are getting divorced “for the children” in response to a combination of easy, no-fault divorce, high-demand for elementary school placements, and school preferences for children of divorced families.

Apparently parents have caught on to the incentives involved: Some parents are filing for divorce in January and February (the legal costs of a divorce are very low), with the divorce becoming final in the summer, so that their kids then acquire top priority for entry into a desirable elementary school. The parents re-marry shortly after the child is safely in a desirable school in September; and once in a school a child has the right to remain there.

[via IMAPP]

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