World Divorce News

Many great things are growing rapidly in Brazil — such as its GDP, its influence on the geopolitical stage, and its legendary passion for the beautiful game.  However, there’s something else booming in Brazil that the country likely doesn’t want to promote on billboards: the nation’s soaring divorce rate. Earlier today, Brazil’s IBGE statistics agency […]

It’s been said that a million years is just a moment as far as the universe is concerned. Well, in that light, the mere 37 years between Bev Worsnop and Robert Worthington’s two marriages – to each other — probably doesn’t even register on the galactic stopwatch. In 1975, Worsnop, 51, and Worthington, 59, marched […]

An Indonesian public official is not LOLing much in the aftermath of his foray into the world of Divorce 2.0. Aceng Fikri, 40, a district chief in West Java, married Fani Oktora, 17, in a ceremony that Fikri later said cost him $26,000. That wasn’t his problem. No, Fikri’s problem was that he claimed his […]

Be honest: have you ever passed by a baby and thought: wow, that’s a face that only a mother could love? Well, it turns out that a Chinese man took that sentiment to the next level, when he divorced his wife for having a baby that he considered just too darn ugly for his liking. […]

In a precedent-setting decision, the Indian High Court in Bombay has ruled that divorced fathers can connect with their non-custodial children through video conferencing, so that they can remain informed of their children’s development even though they’re unable (typically due to geography) to meet face-to-face. However, while divorced dads across are cheering the legal victory, […]

It’s a new kind of domestic scenario that is spreading across the world as belts tighten in the long shadow of the Great Recession: couples who can’t afford to divorce. Indeed, that’s the phenomenon that couples in Limerick, Ireland, are grappling with as they discover that their hearts and wallets aren’t rowing in the same […]

After 11 straight years of increases, the number of spouses who divorced in Portugal fell last year. That’s according to data from Portugal’s General Board for Justice Statistics (DGEJ), which noted that the 18,959 divorces filed across the country in 2011 were 581 less than 2010.   Some experts suggest that Portugal’s current economic challenges […]

As reported by the National Post, a one-sentence change to the UK’s Children Act 19879 is poised to have profound ramifications both within the UK, and likely far beyond its shores as well. The change in question will advise UK judges that “the presumption that a child’s welfare is likely to furthered through safe involvement […]

Multiple researches have shown that videogames can be a cause for divorce amongst married couples. A recent Japanese study surveyed 721 Japanese Women found that playing videogames was the fourth most cited reasons for leaving their spouses. Adultery, alcoholism, and overspending were also in the top four “grounds for divorce.” The women found habits like […]