Amazing Information About Divorce


  • There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
  • A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."
  • The world's most expensive divorce was estimated at US$2.5 billion.
  • A 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage because he discovered an affair she had in the 1940s.
  • No U.S. president has been elected after being divorced except for Ronald Reagan.
  • The average divorcee takes almost 18 months to get over the split.
  • Couples who live together before engagement have a higher divorce rates than those who wait.
  • First marriages that end in a divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
  • Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.
  • Divorce is illegal in the Philippines.
  • 75% of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
  • People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
  • Phil Collins divorced his second wife by fax.
  • In 2007, A Bosnian couple divorced after discovering both had an online affair with each other under fake names.
  • Whatsapp is cited in nearly half of all Italian divorce proceedings.
  • Couples who spend more money on their wedding have a higher divorce rates, a study found.
  • Arguing about money is the top predictor of divorce, a study found.
  • In Islam, a man may divorce his wife three times, taking her back up after the first two times.
  • Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the U.S., a study found.
  • Ronald Reagan was the only U.S. president to have been divorced.
  • Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.
  • In Malaysia, it's legal to divorce your partner via text message.
  • In the UK, if you name the person your spouse was unfaithful with on your divorce papers, they will get copies of the paperwork.
  • People who frown in photos are 5 times more likely to get a divorce than those who smile, research says.
  • Couples in which one partner spends 10+ hours more than usual at work divorce at twice the average rate.
  • Every nation in the world allows its residents to divorce under some conditions except the Philippines and the Vatican City.


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