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About Divorce
  • Within a decade of the introduction of the Divorce Act, the total divorce rate (the percentage of marriages that dissolved in the previous 30-year period) rose from 14 per cent of all marriages in 1969 to 30 per cent in 1975.
  • The total crude divorce rate peaked at 362 divorces per 100,000 inhabitants in 1987.
  • The average divorce requiring legal help costs from several thousand to $40,000 per couple and lasts one to two years.
  • There are several alternative divorce solutions available to Canadian couples today, including collaborative law, traditional (court system), negotiation, mediation, do-it-yourself and arbitration.

Over 25% of custody decisions in the untied states are made in the courts.