Editing Divorce (section)

==Gender and divorce==
According to a study published in the American Law and Economics Review, women have filed slightly more than two-thirds of divorce cases in the United States.<ref>
{{Cite journal|last=Brinig|first=Margaret|author2=Douglas W. Allen|year=2000|title=These Boots Are Made for Walking: Why Most Divorce Filers are Women|journal=American Law and Economics Review|volume=2|issue=1|pages=126–129|doi=10.1093/aler/2.1.126}}</ref> This trend is mirrored in the UK where a recent study into web search behavior found that 70% of divorce inquiries were from women. These findings also correlate with the Office for National Statistics publication "Divorces in England and Wales 2012"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/divorces-in-england-and-wales/2012/index.html|title=Divorces in England and Wales, 2012 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=2014-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812202536/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/divorces-in-england-and-wales/2012/index.html|archive-date=2014-08-12|url-status=live}}</ref> which reported that divorce petitions from women outnumber those from men by 2 to 1.

Regarding divorce settlements, according to the 2004 Grant Thornton survey in the UK, women obtained a better or considerably better settlement than men in 60% of cases. In 30% of cases the assets were split 50–50, and in only 10% of cases did men achieve better settlements (down from 24% the previous year). The report concluded that the percentage of [[shared residency in English law|shared residence]] orders would need to increase in order for more equitable financial divisions to become the norm.<ref name="gt" />

Some jurisdictions give unequal rights to men and women when filing for divorce.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

For couples following Conservative or Orthodox Jewish law (which by [[Marriage in Israel|Israeli civil law]] includes all Jews in Israel), the husband must grant his wife a divorce through a document called a ''[[get (divorce document)|get]]''. Granting the 'get' obligates him to pay the woman a significant sum of money (10,000-$20,000) as stated on the religious prenuptial contract, which can be in addition to whatever prior settlement he had reached as far as continuous child support and funds he had to pay by court order in the civil divorce. If the man refuses (agreeing on condition he will not have to pay the money is still called refusing), the woman can appeal to a court or the community to pressure the husband. A woman whose husband refuses to grant the get or a woman whose husband is missing without sufficient knowledge that he died, called an [[agunah]], is still married, and therefore cannot remarry. Under Orthodox law, children of an extramarital affair involving a married Jewish woman are considered ''[[mamzer]]im'' and cannot marry non-''mamzerim''.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=125673859|title=Under Israel's Divorce Laws, Men Get The Final Word|publisher=[[NPR]]|access-date=2010-05-24|date=2010-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417171807/http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=125673859|archive-date=2010-04-17|url-status=live}}</ref>