page_title: Divorce in the United States
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Divorce in the United States / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a figure illustrating the greater rates of marital dissolution by income and race/ethnicity in the U.S. in 2002.
context_page_description: Divorce in the United States, also known as dissolution of marriage, is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the status of being single and permitting them to marry other individuals. In the United States, marriage and divorce fall under the jurisdiction of state governments, not the federal government.
  Although such matters are usually ancillary or consequential to the dissolution of the marriage, divorce may also involve issues of spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt.
caption: Probability of divorce is influenced by ethnicity and income
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