EU Clarifies Cross-border Divorces
December 12, 2010
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Divorce Rate of Immigrants Rising
November 21, 2010As reported in Sí, Se Puede, “El Periodico de la Integración,” between 2007 and 2009 the divorce rate in Spain among couples where both members are immigrants rose from 2.9% to 4.4%. Meanwhile the overall Spanish divorce rate declined during the same period.
The rate of divorce among couples where one member is an immigrant also rose: from 6.4% in 2007 to 8.4% in 2009.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find the article, “España registra cada vez mayor número de divorcios en parejas de inmigrantes,” in the on-line version of Sí, Se Puede but the statistics on which the story is based come from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, where you can sort national divorce statistics by nationality, age, duration of the marriage, etc.
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Expats & Spanish Divorce Law – part 1
November 26, 2009Prior to 2003, if married partners were of the same nationality, the law of their country of origin applied in case of divorce. But in 2002 a group of Moroccan women filed a complaint with the Defensor del Pueblo on the grounds that Moroccan law discriminated against women and therefore violated the Spanish Constitution. As a result, Article 107 of the civil code was revised. The Article now reads that the law of the country of origin will be applied except in certain circumstances, one of which is that this law does not recognise separation or divorce and/ or is discriminatory.
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