Divorce Questions - Divorce Rate Skewed By Teen Marriages
Love is in the air in American High Schools, and divorce questions in the water. According to the National Vital Statistics Report issued by the center For Disease Control, 2003, the
national US divorce rate was 56% of all marriages. However, only 25% of US citizens will experience dissolution in their lifetime. Below the age of 25,
the rate of failure rises sharply. For each year of marriage, up to year 7, the likelihood of success increases.
Remarrying and subsequent breakups account for the other large difference in rates - with third marriages
failing approximately 77% of the time.
The probability of dissolution after age 25 and after 7 years of marriage is approximately 23%. Nevertheless,
skewing divorce questions is popular for headlines and politicians seeking justification for proposed enactment
of Conservative Christian laws.
How Divorce Questions are resolved:
- Legal divorce questions pertaining to rules and cases must be rendered by a judge. Attorneys advise
clients of probabilities of various outcomes along a sliding scale of least to more favorable
- Academic divorce questions relating to the children are resolved by the court
based upon the opinion of qualified experts, through deposition, narrative reports and testimony.
- Factual divorce questions relating to marriage are determined by a jury empanelled by the court, unless a
jury is waived. In non-jury trials (bench trials) the court assumes the responsibilities of both judge and
jury.
- Minor divorce questions of convenience are ordinarily determined by agreement of attorneys for legal
issues, and parents for custody issues.
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