Timetables in the Divorce Process

Abstract

This paper examines the amount of time a sample of women took to progress from the point of making a decision to divorce, through marital separation, to the filing of a petition for divorce. The 199 women interviewed in the study were randomly selected from court records in Alameda and San Francisco counties, California. A wide range in the amount of time required to pass from decision to petition was evident among these women. Age at marriage, the number of years married, and who had originally been most in favor of divorce made independent and significant contributions to the prediction of timing. When these three antecedent conditions were controlled, using an ANCOVA design, timing was found to predict morale and symptoms reported at interview.

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