Top divorce lawyer comments on ‘Divorce rate lowest for 29 years’ story
This quote relates to the story regarding the number of divorces in England and Wales being announced today as having fallen for a fifth successive year, to the lowest rate for 29 years.
Ayesha Vardag, the leading UK divorce lawyer who acted for Katrin Radmacher in her landmark prenuptial agreement win in the Court of Appeal last summer, commented: “Our experience is that fewer couples are divorcing because fewer are marrying. This comes partly from the increased social acceptability of living together and having children outside marriage, and partly from anxiety about the unpredictable financial consequences of marriage, which have in recent times often been seen as unfair. We generally find, anecdotally, that women are more likely to choose to separate and/or divorce, men being more likely to choose to have secret affairs but stay in their domestic structure.”
Notes to Editors:
Ayesha Vardag graduated from Cambridge University with Honours in Law and from Brussels with a Master’s in European Law, working at the International Courts of Justice in the Hague, the UN(IAEA) in Vienna, Linklaters (finance law) and Sears Tooth (divorce law).
Her firm, Vardags, works at the cutting edge of family law in leading cases involving ‘big money’ and complex international issues.