The Cost of Marriage and Divorce

For many of us, marriage and divorce are the bookends of life; yes, there’s a before and an after, but when it comes to the convergence of emotion and money, the two events really define quality of life and standard of living.

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Marriage and divorce also happen to dovetail with the other big life event — children.

For these reasons and more, we decided to focus entirely on marriage and divorce in our latest edition ofLife Changes.

Better and Worse

Though much has been made of America’s 50 percent divorce rate, experts say there is little statistical truth to it. In fact, the source of what is now considered folklore is unknown.

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