Divorce and separation more frequent this year 'due to financial and job stress'
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 @ 4:14 PM
DIVORCES and legal separations went up in the first quarter of this year, bucking the trend seen in the early years of the financial crisis when marital break-ups decreased.
From January to March 2014 inclusive, nearly 34,600 couples decided to put an end to their unions - an increase of 11.3 per cent on the same period in 2013.
Uncontested divorces rose in number the most, by 13.8 per cent or a total of 19,376 couples, but La Rioja holds the record with these having risen by 43.2 per cent, and contested divorces by 48.9 per cent.
Only the Canary Islands saw a reduction in 'messy' marital annulments involving the courts - by 2.3 per cent - and, across the country, the number of legal separations rose by 13.3 per cent in the case of uncontested splits and 4.9 per cent in the case of those involving solicitors and battles.
'Amicable' divorces increased the most in La Rioja, and in the western region of Extremadura - by 31.7 per cent - followed by Castilla y León (25.1 per cent) and Navarra (22.5 per cent).
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