106 000 marriages were broken in 2009, almost 11% less than in 2008.
Divorce and marital breakdowns continue their downward trend begun in 2007. In the year 2009 there were 106 166 marriages solutions, representing a 10.7% lower than the previous year, according to data provided Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
64.6% of the dissolutions were by mutual agreement of 2009 there were 7680 separations (12.3% less than in the previous year) and 98,359 divorces, STO gold, (10.6% less). For its part, there were 127 annulments, 10.6% less than in the year 2008. The causes, as in recent years, seem to point to the pervasive economic crisis.
Divorces accounted for 92.7% of marriage dissolutions in 2009, compared to 7.2% of separations and 0.1% of annulments. Thus, consolidating the upward trend in divorces in overall marital dissolutions.
In 2009 there, darkfall gold, were 158 marriages solutions homosexualesEn the year 2009 there were 158 same-sex marriage dissolutions. Of this number, 87 were men and 71 ruptures among women.
64.6% of marriage dissolutions in 2009 were by mutual agreement, representing an increase from 63.7% of registered consensual solutions of the previous year. A fact that, in relative terms, it also grows on other exercises.
Forty years and fifteen, fallen earth power leveling, years of marriage
The highest number of breaks occurred in the age group between 40 and 49 years for both men and women.
The average age of women at the time of the marriage dissolution was 41.9 years (41.6 years in divorces, separations in 44.9, and 38.4 in annulments).
The average duration of marriages dissolved was 15.6 years, as observed the previous year.
Half, with children under
53.6% of marriages dissolved in the year 2009 has minor children, a figure similar to that observed in 2008 (54.0%). 30.7% of dissolved marriages has only one child.
Custody of minor children was granted in 84% of cases the mother in 57.5% of the solutions was assigned a marital alimony (compared to 56.9% in the year 2008). Among them, 88.7% of cases the payment of alimony it corresponded to the father, at 5.3% of cases the mother and 6.0% of the cases both spouses.
Custody of minor children was awarded to the mother in 84.0% of the marital breakdown of the year 2009 (86.0% in 2008). The father won custody in 5.6% of the solutions (4.0% in 2008), was shared by both spouses in 9.7% (same as in 2008) and gave to others (institutions, other family ) at 0.7%.
As regards the presentation of the demand for dissolution of marriage, in 45.5% of cases the complaint was filed by both spouses in 30.1% by the wife and 24.4% by the husband . This priority is maintained both in divorces and in the separations.
Canary Islands, where more solutions
The number of marriage dissolutions per 1,000 inhabitants in Spain was 2.27 in the year 2009, lower than that recorded in the previous year (2.58).
For state government, which recorded the highest rates were Canarias (2.83), Asturias (2.62) and Wales (2.61) as well as the cityof Melilla (3.04).
By contrast, the autonomous communities with lower rates were Castilla-La Mancha (1.65), Extremadura (1.70) and Castilla y Leon (1.72).