IX. Divorce.

1.- Divorce is the final termination of a marriage, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage. In most countries, divorce requires the sanction of a judge or other authority in a legal process.

2.- The legal process for divorce may also involve issues of child custody, distribution of property and division of debt.

3.- Reasons for divorce may also be different – emotional and divorce for convenience, which is rare. The family may become dysfunctional, there can be also an acrimonious divorce – full of anger, arguments and bad feelings.

4.- Sociologists claim, that a divorce may affect children badly, but I can't agree. It depends on the each certain family and each certain child. Some problems may emerge, but it's not connected with the divorce itself, to my mind, but with the personal relationship between parents or between parents and children. Also, the divorce cannot be considered as a problem, I think. It's personal choice of every partner, which has a right to live the way he likes. It doesn't affect society, as I have said, it doesn't affect children, at least in a direct way.

X. Trial separation.

There is also a status called trial separation. When a couple is not divorced, but they don't live together and don't take marital responsibilities, in particular it is connected with property.