A lot of divorce lawsuits when a company moves?

Mercedes USA is moving from New Jersey to Georgia (nytimes). I’m wondering if this means some of the 1,000 employees affected by the move will sue or be sued for divorce. A plaintiff might find it far more profitable to sue for divorce under New Jersey law than under Georgia law and might prefer the sole custody arrangements that are more typical in New Jersey compared to Atlanta. Here are some of the differences:

• child support in New Jersey can be collected until a child turns 22 (until “emancipation” which our interviewee said was “usually just a four-year college education”); in Georgia child support is cut off at age 18
• a judge in New Jersey can order the defendant to pay for college; a judge in Georgia does not have that power
• child support in New Jersey is governed by guidelines up to $187,200 per year of a defendant’s after-tax income [resulting in a cash flow of $29,692 per year for a single child; compare to about $50,000 per year in Massachusetts or $55,250 per year in Manhattan] and above that is limited only by a judge’s generosity; child support in Georgia is capped at $26,832 per year (tax-free), based on $360,000 per year in parental income
• our interviewees estimated that, for a given length of marriage, alimony was likely to last longer in New Jersey compared to Georgia, though in both cases might be roughly one third the difference in pre-tax income
• a custody lawsuit in New Jersey is likely to end with the mother obtaining sole custody of any children (every-other-weekend visitation with the father); a custody lawsuit in Metro Atlanta is likely to end, especially if both parents work, with a 50/50 parenting time schedule (though our interviewee said that rural Georgia was more traditional and therefore more like New Jersey)
• a plaintiff in New Jersey with a lower income than the defendant can get the defendant ordered to pay the legal fees on both sides of the case (our interviewee estimated a minimum of $300,000 in total fees, including psychologist expert witnesses, for a custody lawsuit); in Georgia generally each litigant has to pay for his or her own lawyer

This seems like an interesting sociology research project. At a minimum these seem like good questions:

1. do employees and spouses research these differences in law prior to the move?
2. are lawsuits more prevalent shortly before a move or immediately after?
3. (to make sure that the answer to 2 is about the differences in law instead of the move) to what extent is there an increased number of lawsuits around the time of a corporate move when divorce laws are nearly the same in the two jurisdictions?

[Separately, why would Mercedes want to move? Tax Foundation says New Jersey has the 49th worst business environment in the nation. To run state and local government the state collects 12.27 percent of residents’ income, the second highest percentage in the U.S. (after New York). Georgia, on the other hand, manages to run state and local government with 8.84 percent of residents’ income, slightly below the national average, though its business environment ranks #32 out of 50. And the New York Times article shows the benefits of being a big rich company in the U.S., with both New Jersey and Georgia offering Mercedes-Benz massive hand-outs that an employer of 10 workers could not obtain, even scaled proportionately.]