1.   Before the abortion debate, most politicians felt that a law allowing divorce would be approved by referendum.

2.   Couples can still obtain a standard marriage license which allows unilateral divorce by either partner for any reason, as long as they lived apart for six months.

3.   Divorces are allowed for matches that go bad.

4.   New York has long resisted a national trend toward allowing no-fault divorce.

5.   The government has proposed changing the law to allow divorces if couples are separated for four or more years.

6.   Under Philippine law, divorce is not allowed, only annulment.

7.   After five years, divorce is allowed even if one of the married couple oppose it, according to British law.

8.   The proposed law would notably allow divorce automatically following a separation of no less than five years.

9.   Since deeply Roman Catholic Ireland voted early this year to allow divorce, the debate over legislating on the issue in Chile has heated up.

10.   The Church, while allowing divorce, normally frowns on remarriage afterwards.