Editing Divorce (section)

====Summary divorce====
A summary or simple divorce, available in some jurisdictions{{which|date=January 2016}}, is used when spouses meet certain eligibility requirements or can agree on key issues beforehand.

Key factors:
* Short duration of marriage (less than five years)
* Absence of children (or, in some jurisdictions, prior allocation of child custody and of child-support direction and amount)
* Absence or minimal value of real property at issue and any associated encumbrances such as mortgages
* Absence of agreed-as-marital property above a given value threshold (around $35,000 not including vehicles)
* Absence, with respect to each spouse, of claims to personal property above a given value threshold, typically the same as that for total marital property, with such claims including claims to exclusive previous ownership of property described by the other spouse as marital