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It offers divorcing couples a more effective and humane alternative to the traditional adversarial process.

It is also more private, more flexible, and gives a divorcing couple more control, and support, than litigation.

Not exact matches

Having a conversation about what you want if things don't work out as planned often helps couples have a more reasonable discussion when divorce hits.

It's a concept that seems to resonate — more than 1 million people have visited the site since it launched in 2013, with 30,000 participating in forums around the topic of divorce and 2,500 couples expected to use the platform this year.

This suggests that the low - divorce trend in that province is about to reverse, as more couples jump to cash out of their family homes — and marriages.

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According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

From divvying up assets to asserting parental rights, the details of divorce that can be more clear - cut with heterosexual marriages are creating complications for same - sex couples.

In addition, couples where one partner commutes for more than 45 minutes one way are more than 40 percent more likely to divorce.

Separate finances are, not surprisingly, more common among common law couples and the recently divorced, as well as among those with higher education.

A greater percentage of older couples are getting divorced and are at an age when they are more likely to have annuities.

Age at marriage may be a risk factor with respect to divorce, but perhaps the more valid conclusion is in the opposite direction, that high divorce rates scare couples away from early marriage.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Although some studies suggest that church - going couples are more likely to stay together, divorce among Christians is still relatively common.

And while the number of divorces has dropped in recent years, more than 100,000 couples still split every year.

Ever more couples live together without benefit of marriage, and ever larger numbers of those who do marry later divorce.

The couple has been married for more than 30 years, and although Pastor Hinn has faithfully endeavored to bring healing to their relationship, those efforts failed and were met with the petition for divorce that was filed without notice.»

It may be that the divorce rate will rise even higher as couples struggle unsuccessfully to develop more satisfying marriage styles.

Approximately one - fourth of the over one million couples who divorce each year in the United States have been married fifteen years or more.

In the last five years, divorce among couples married twenty years or more has increased fifty percent.

How often have we heard from couples who are getting a divorce that «they just don't love each other any more»?

Traditionally, the church has taught that divorced and remarried couples must «live together as brother and sister» — that is, that they must go and sin no more.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

So I'm heartened by that as well as the rise in couples seeking mediation or collaborative divorce, and more dads sharing joint custody.

Only 1 in 4 marriages end in diorvce for college - educated couples; there's more divorce among the high - school - only educated.

Judges have sometimes made it happen, but nowadays, with more couples interested in a kinder, gentler way of divorcing (even if not quite conscious uncoupling), evidenced by the rise of the divorce selfie, some couples are choosing it themselves.

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, -LSB-...]

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But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

Still, most seem to be much more concerned with divorce that's occurring among couples with young — under minor age — children.

And those are the couples who, if they end up «sliding into marriage,» as research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver Scott Stanley would call it, are more likely to divorce at some point.

Society as a whole seems to care more about the kids in a divorce, not the couple.

And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.

According to The National Marriage Project, the more time you spend together as a couple, the less likely you are to get divorced.

Most of today's divorces — 55 percent — are happening to couples who'd been married for more than 20 years.

Infertility can greatly impact a marriage and infertile couples may be three times more likely to divorce.

• High take up of parental leave by Swedish fathers is linked to lower rates of separation / divorce, as is more equitable sharing by a couple of earning and caring roles.

While my conversation with them a few months ago was about the importance of marital contracts for newlyweds, my more recent conversations were about midlife couples, the ones who are driving the so - called gray divorce — those 50 and older — which is growing.

That seems incredible invasive, but perhaps more couples will be forced to do that in future divorce cases (which may send more people who want to cheat to AshleyMadison.com apps).

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Adults who didn't attend college and have a low household income are more likely to be divorced — Non-college educated couples are nearly 20 % more likely to get divorced within the first 10 years of marriage than college - educated couples.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

With divorce mediation, our goal is to create an environment that is more collaborative by working together toward solutions to ensure divorcing couples end up with an arrangement that works for them, their kids if applicable, and their budgets.

I leverage my 25 years of mediation and executive coaching experience to guide couples through the divorce process or help with issues after a divorce that... more

While the «physical» aspects of parenting are certainly important for divorcing couples, it is critical that that couples spend as much (if not more) energy on the emotional aspects of parenting during divorce: How is my child adjusting to the changes in our family?

«Based on Dr. Emery's extensive clinical and research experience, this book will help divorcing couples and their children deal with the many challenges associated with marital breakups and build happier, more fulfilling lives.»

A half of these couples divorce, while half of them (17 % of the total) stay together for three or more years.»

For couples with no children, the decision to divorce is more evenly spread.

Spouses who are both children of divorced parents are three times more likely to divorce as couples who both hail from intact families.

A more equal marriage doesn't necessarily mean a happier marriage: A recent Norweigan study found higher divorce rates among couples who split the housework evenly.