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divorce
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1969 divorce reform act
allowed couples to legally obtain a divorce if they could prove that their relationship had experienced irretrievable breakdown if both partners consented after a period of separation.
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1996 Family Law act
after a surge of divorces, this increased the minimum time limit for a divorce to 18 months and introduced a mandatory cooling off period in which couples were expected to attend marriage counselling.
2011 gov (coalition)
attempted to ease burdens on family courts by referring divorcing couples to mediation to sort out differences and settlements of assets.
the number of marriages ending in divorce is about five times higher than it was fifty years ago with around half of new marriages today ending in divorce. the UK has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe.
changes in the law over the last 100 years has made divorce easier and cheaper which means that men and women now have equal rights in divorce - women can now initiate divorce.
since the introduction of legal aid, divorce has become much cheaper and made more available to those unable to afford it.
before 1969, divorce was available but expensive and spouses had to prove that their partners were guilty of a matrimonial offence such as adultery.
1993, 165,000 couples got divorces - record high.
the wider availability of contraception which is safe and effective means that it is now safer to have sex with more than one person during marriage and this weakens the traditional constraints of fidelity. this may expose relationships to greater instability.
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