The Divorce Rate Is Down! Someone Tell My Clients

The media was alerted this week that the American divorce rate is at its lowest point since the 1970's. I find this an interesting statistic since the National Census bureau has stopped calculated the rate of Divorce and hasn't done so since early on this decade. So I wonder where the census bureau got its information. I will tell you one thing, no one has told my clients. Divorce is still one very lucrative field in the practice of law and there are no signs of it slowing down. The article alerting us to the lower rates of divorce, also sites that more people than ever are living together without getting married. The article also states that those who marry older and are more educated AND have more money are less likely to get divorced. WOW! Now that is newsworthy! So it would follow then that people who do not need to fight over money get divorce less often than those who are under financial constraints. Now of course this is not to say that all those wealthy well education married couples are living happily. They have just decided it was financially more beneficial to stay together.
Again, this becomes a quality of life decision, to stay married or not. There really is no story here....this statistic is questionable...perhaps this is the media's way of getting New Yorkers off their quest for no fault divorce laws. Because after all we all know if it is easier to get a divorce, we will all do it! PLEASE......