Divorces increase by 10 per cent in 2021
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‘2021 was another unprecedented time for all, with the impact of Covid still being felt,’ says lawyer.
By Maya Oppenheim, Women’s Correspondent
The pandemic appears to have triggered a divorce backlog with divorces rising by 10 per cent in 2021, new data shows.
Figures, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday, revealed there were 113,505 divorces permitted in England and Wales last year, which is a ten per cent increase in comparison to 2020 which saw 103,592 divorces.
The number of divorces allowed in 2020 could have felt the repercussions of ‘disruption to family court activities’ amid the coronavirus crisis, the ONS said.
Amanda Sharfman, a statistician at the ONS, noted the rise in divorces comes after a fall in 2020, as she explained divorces in both 2020 and 2021 could have been impacted by Covid-related upheaval to the courts.
Ms Sharfman added: ‘If we look at trends over a longer period of time, we have seen changes in the percentage of marriages en...
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