The Australian Institute of Family studies reports that the divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 Australian residents) has fallen in the 2000s and was at its lowest rate since 1976 in 2016 at just 1.9…

“I’d be lying if I said I saw it coming,” says Emma*. “We were busy parents and professionals. We didn’t really argue. There were ups and downs, but nothing that said ‘unhappy’.”..

Divorce is never easy, but couples over 50 who end their marriages face particular hurdles. Below, people who went through a late-in-life divorce share six things they would tell their younger selves, offering ways others can learn from their experiences…

The method used in this study was adapted from a method that successfully predicts divorce. Reports on this method show that it predicts divorce with more than 80 per cent, and sometimes more than 90 per cent accuracy…

A study from the Australian Institute of Family Studies has shown divorced men have higher average incomes, but lower satisfaction, than divorced women…

Hundreds of separated WA couples have to live together because Perth’s high rents mean neither can afford to move out…

Modern marriages have become expensive public statements without contractual teeth. Women (and men whose wives have much greater earning potential) have lost the ability to constrain their own or their spouses’ future behaviour…

In light of the staggering costs of divorce to the national economy in government assistance payments and court costs, Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews said he will act to establish an expert panel on early intervention, examine strategies to lower the divorce rate and better identify and assist vulnerable children and young people…

Between 2010 and mid-2013, more than 3600 couples, where one partner was aged 70 or over, lodged divorce applications in the Family Court or Federal Circuit Court, court statistics show…

In a recent research report titled Untying the Knot, Suncorp Superannuation asked married and divorced people about retirement ages and found that while both groups were on par when it came to ideal retirement ages, there was a big gap when they had to be realistic…