If I mention that iPhone and iPad now have access to a divorce app, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the world has gone mad and it’s now possible to divorce via text message or tweet. Fortunately, that’s not the case. Divorce? is designed to save individuals hundreds of pounds […]
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The number of couples feeling the emotional pain and financial cost of fighting a divorce in the courts may be about to fall, as the UK government introduces a new law requiring mediation to be the first option in a separation. From 6th April this year, couples without any risk […]
If you’re being unfaithful to your partner but haven’t been extremely careful about your Facebook profile, you are very likely to be caught out. And rightly so. Divorce lawyers are ditching the old-fashioned methods — private detectives and the like — in favour of snooping the social networks to catch […]
Brits may not recognise the name Larry King, unless they are avid fans of American chat shows, but the talking point here is just how many wives he has got through. News today suggests that he is ready to divorce his seventh wife (and in fact has filed for divorce […]
You don’t have to look far in celebrity world to find the next divorce statistic, and you’d probably be assured of a dead cert where Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren are concerned. Woods may have returned to golf, but the notable absence of his wife must’ve sent the alarm bells […]
It turns out that the near-ubiquitous prenuptial agreement that every celebrity couple now arranges before the wedding day has worked in savvy Sandra Bullock’s favour. Perhaps you’d expect the potential breakup of Sandra and husband Jesse James to net him a handsome chunk of her fortune, but the fact is […]
The imminent separation of a couple, particularly those with children, can be painful for friends and extended family as well as for those directly involved, yet those surrounding a couple often play a significant role in working things through. A YouGov survey of one thousand separated parents (with children under […]
That headline sounds almost obvious, right? We know that you can prove most things with statistics, but having said that, some interesting new figures have come from the UK’s Office of National Statistics… The number of divorces in England and Wales decreased 5% in 2008 compared to the previous year, […]
According to the same online agency that told us Facebook is bad for marriage, the UK’s divorce rate could rise for the first time in a decade. MD of Divorce-Online, Mark Keenan, expects to see at least a two per cent rise in divorce in 2010, with the recession generally […]
Social networking phenomenon Facebook is at least partly responsible for one in five marriage breakups, if you believe the latest research from a British online divorce service. By scanning their divorce petition database, they found that the word “Facebook” was used in 989 out of 5,000 cases sampled. It seems […]
Last year, when the scale of the economic crisis was still dawning upon us, the UK’s Office of National Statistics found that the slowing property market could be reducing the divorce rate. That doesn’t mean that relationships have suddenly got significantly better. In fact, financial turmoil places a real strain […]
There’s nothing like a bit of tech sex to sell tabloid newspapers, so the recent report that a wife wants to divorce her husband because he took part in virtual gay sex in the online game Second Life isn’t much of a surprise. I reported on the threat of virtual […]