World Divorce News

Dubai Couples Seek Divorce after gaining access to Spouses Private Social Media and Smart Phone Information

Despite contributing nothing to their shared wealth, a divorcee has won her battle to hold on to a £4.4-million share of her ex-husband’s ancestral fortune. After separating with Anthony Arbuthnot Watkins Grubb in July 2009, Jennifer Grubb was given a £1.65-million lump sum to meet her reasonable needs, a £2-million nine-bedroom country house set in […]

Post-HSC divorce happens when women in their 40s and 50s keep the family together for the youngest child’s exams, then start making their plans for freedom. This is one reason why divorce rates for Australian women in this age group are soaring higher than any other, relationship experts say. From 2001 to 2006 there was […]

The Ministry of Justice is moving to make it easier for persons to make that “final” break as Jamaican couples file for divorce. Each month an average of 200 Jamaican couples file for divorce. Many divorce filings have created a backlog in the court system because they all have to be signed by puisne judges, […]

A couple living apart for 21 years from the day of their legal separation has been granted their divorce judgment by the Maltese courts. Just after the law came into force on October 1, the couple filed a joint application for divorce on October 11. The couple had no intention of reconciling and the requisites […]

Malaysia – For married couples who divorce without valid grounds, the Kelantan Government is thinking of imposing heavier penalties like whipping or jail sentences. Stringent enforcement and heavier penalties would help keep the divorce rate down, according to State Women Development, Family and Health Committee chairman Wan Ubaidah Omar. During the question and answer time at […]

A woman won £500,000 in the National Lottery and his ex-husband, a hotel porter, got £85,000 in the High Court because she used some of the money to buy a family home. The prize was “non-matrimonial property”, Judge Mostyn said. But the woman converted part of her non-matrimonial assets into matrimonial property the moment she […]

In Mexico City, it will just be probably for two years when you say “for better or for worse.”  Recently a proposal has been getting a lot of attention in Mexico City, a proposal that allows people to get a two year temporary marriage license. Extreme liberals in Mexico City proposed the said notion. According […]

According to British muslim groups, the number of polygamous relationships among British Muslims is increasing. Imran (not his real name), one of the growing number of second generation British Muslim men who have two wives, says he spends one day and one night with one, and one day one night with the other. Imran runs […]

Since the divorce law was enacted, eleven applications for divorce were filed in Malta, the first day that such requests could be made. Nine of the applications involved couples who were already separated. The remaining two were from couples undergoing separation proceedings. The law for the introduction of divorce was approved by Parliament just before […]