Top Best Countries To Get Divorced

While divorce is never easy, some countries have systems in place that encourage the fair and equitable treatment of both partners. If you’re lucky enough to reside in one of these countries you have a much better shot at being treated like a human being by the legal system. Here are some of the best countries to get divorced in.

France

Maintenance / alimony is not very common in France. In France, there is also no requirement for the couple to disclose details of their finances or to take separate legal advice. Overall the system does not encourage adversarial behavior between couples nearly as heavily as other countries such as the United States, Canada, and the U.K. Both spouses are held up to the same standard in all regards as France looks to enact actual equality in the eyes of the law, rather than preferential treatment of one spouse as in other systems of divorce throughout the world.

Germany

Similar to France, only maintenance (alimony) is more common in Germany. Still, it is quite low in comparison to other countries and usually does not last nearly as long as it does in places such as Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. where it can last up to ‘eternity’

Other Various European Countries (that aren’t the United Kingdom)

This pattern of fair treatment between spouses can be found reoccurring throughout many parts of Europe:

Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Latvia all have similar systems to that of Germany and France. Particularly Russia has shown to respect the concept of a fair divorce. When Roman Abramovich, one of the richest men in the entire World, and his wife divorced she was given a settlement of 1.1 billion dollars, the equivalent of 10% of his income. It was considered to be fair because, well, it’s 1.1 billion dollars. Had the couple been divorced in the U.K. His wife would have been considered to be entitled to up to 6 billion dollars, or approximately 55-60% of his wealth.

As in the United States, laws and policies are fluid and ever changing in each of these countries, meaning what may be true as of the publication of this article could change quickly. We can hope that things will get better, that these working systems of divorce will be used as the standard to make changes in other parts of the world but it’s just as likely that it could go the other way and these countries could find their laws entrenched in the same broken dogma as those listed as the ‘worst places to get divorced’.