Laws to enable couples to divorce quickly without a “blame game” are to be introduced within months after overwhelming support from the public, The Times has learnt. David Gauke, the justice secretary, is preparing a bill that will end the fault-based divorce system. It is a victory for this newspaper’s Family Matters campaign, which called for reform and gained the support of senior judges, lawyers and politicians. Last year 110,000 couples divorced in England and Wales under a 50-year-old law that has been condemned as unfit for purpose and damaging to couples and children. The new bill will enable couples to divorce without making accusations of bad behaviour, by giving notice that a marriage has broken down irretrievably.

Source: The Times February 08, 2019 00:05 UTC