Search Results for 'Divorces'

Hubby divorces wife in midst of live radio programme

A Saudi man immediately heeded an advice by a prominent Islamic scholar and divorced his wife by telephone during a live radio programme tackling marital issues, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The phoned the programme presenter, S [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Facebook blamed for a third of divorces in the UK

Facebook is increasingly being blamed as a reason for, or as evidence when, filing for divorce. In 2011, 33 percent of behavior petitions contained the name of the social network; this is a whopping increase from 2009, when only 20 percen [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Divorces up by 4.9% in England and Wales

The Office for National Statistics said there were 119,589 divorces in 2010 compared with 113,949 in 2009. When the divorce rate last rose in 2003, there were 153,065 break-ups, a rise from 147,735 the previous year. The number of divorce [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Firms help staff pay for divorces

Small British firms are helping staff pay the costs of their divorces to keep them focused on work, a law firm has said. Pannone, the Manchester-based law firm, said that bosses were increasingly taking a "paternalistic" approac [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Other People’s Divorces

YOU don’t have to be divorced to be sucked in by the new HuffPost Divorce section on The Huffington Post; you just have to have thought about getting one. Which basically includes every married person on the planet. It began, as so [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

'Lightning Divorces' Strike China's 'Me Generation'

One in every five Chinese marriages now ends in divorce, double the rate a decade ago. Beijing has the highest divorce rate nationwide, with 39 percent of all marriages ending in a split. This trend is sparking concern. Experts fear that [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Divorces among over-50s soar

Reports say that divorces among the over-50s have soared by 19 per cent to 23,000 a year since 1998 and the overall rate is said to have fell 16 per cent to 130,000 a year. It’s said that couples whose children have left home are s [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Affairs a factor in 40% of divorces

Almost 40 percent of Haidian district couples that divorced this year said infidelity is the reason they were splitting up, the court said. The court settled 2,764 divorce cases between January and October this year, and 995 were triggered [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Divorce-a-phobes (not divorces) are toxic to society!

The other morning, I read an AP article which quoted Brian Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, as saying "[divorce is] basically a social and environmental toxin." As a divorce pro [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Which Part Of The Country Has The Most Divorces?

Have you ever been the Florida Keys? Pretty nice, right? Beers, sun, the Hemmingway experience, et cetera. But did you know that Monroe County (which entirely encompasses the nearly 2,000-island chain) has one of the highest proportio [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Marriages, Divorces Fall for 5th Month

The number of Koreans tying the knot in May fell for the fifth consecutive month, with more men and women delaying marriage over increasing financial difficulties amid the tight job market. The number of couples filing for divorce also dr [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Mother in laws behind Indian divorces in Malaysia

Mother in law syndrome is the prime reason for divorce among ethnic Indian couples in Malaysia, a government study has found. Their 'interference' also haunts the ethnic Chinese and Malays who have also cited it as the main cause behind the [...]

Posted On : May, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Surprise rise in divorces and marriages

Following years of a gradual decline in the number of Finns choosing to divorce, the figures for 2008 suggest the trend may now be in the opposite direction. The number of terminated marriages was comparatively high last year. At the same t [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

14-year-old bride divorces 'husband'

Israel's youngest couple ever to apply for a divorce was granted one by the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court this week. The court ruled after the groom's parents discovered that the teenage lovers - she 14 and he 17 - had exchanged marriage vows. [...]