World Divorce News

Malta – The government was accused of failing to make the necessary preparations for the introduction of divorce next Sunday by the Labour Party. PL spokesman for Justice Jose Herrera said no investment has been made in resources to cater for the new right in the courts. According to reports, the workload at the Family […]

Losing a property in China is quite similar to losing romance.  A new interpretation of China’s Marriage Law was rolled out by the country’s Supreme Court last month, changing the way property disputes are handled after a divorce. In the weeks after the changes were made, marriage registrations fell by 30% in the southwest city of […]

A judge in France ruled out that Jean-Louis B. is solely at fault in the divorce proceedings. And for all the orgasms his wife didn’t get to have during that time period, he must pay her 10,000 euros as compensation.  Did the judge make the right the decision? 10,000 euros seems pretty low if you’re going […]

Discover how the high cost of divorce in England, along with the recession and high unemployment, is forcing many couples to stay married because they cannot afford to get divorced.

Hedge funder Pierre Lagrange could face one of the biggest divorce payouts in U.K. history.  The GLG Partners co-founder is likely to split his estimated £330 million fortune with his wife, Catherine.  The couple separated last year but Lagrange filed divorce papers only last month. He called their split a “most amicable one.” Lagrange also […]

Europe – There are 3,757 divorce cases in Georgia this year according to the statistics of Tbilisi City Court.  And this number may increase by the end of the year.  4,721 divorce cases were filed in Georgia last year and 4,030 in 2009. The number of divorces has almost doubled in the last ten years […]

A prominent Indonesian Muslim scholar, Nazarudin Umar, has recently aired his concern regarding the increasing divorce rate in Indonesia, especially after the Supreme Court adopted a one-roof judicial system. Umar says most judges at the Religious Courts conduct divorces too easily.  He adds that in order to gain “reward points” for promotion in their careers, […]

In Ghana, at least 40% of marriages registered annually in the region break up within 14 months. 

In what could signal the start of a major shift in attitudes towards marriage and divorce, accounting firm Grant Thornton released a report last week confirming that the new #1 reason for divorce in the UK is “growing apart.” Since 2003, when the firm began tracking why couples were untying the knot, that old staple known by […]

Since getting a divorce is easier in Romania, more and more foreign couples go there to get divorced.