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Divorce Corp

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America's family court system handles over a million divorces a year, and this film argues that scale has turned it into an industry with its own financial incentives. Director Joseph Sorge interviews judges, lawyers, psychologists, and parents caught inside custody battles, building a case that court-appointed evaluators, mandatory mediators, and drawn-out litigation generate fees that reward conflict over resolution. The film points to specific scandals, including judges in Pennsylvania sentencing juveniles to for-profit detention centers in exchange for kickbacks, as evidence of how easily financial interest can corrupt a courtroom. Custody disputes get particular attention, with parents describing children used as leverage and legal bills that outlast the marriages that caused them. The film also looks abroad, holding up countries with standardized custody formulas as evidence that the adversarial American model isn't inevitable. It closes with calls for reform: flat fees, parenting plans set by formula rather than negotiation, and less discretion for individual judges. The result is an angry, well-sourced argument that the system built to end marriages has little incentive to end quickly or cheaply.