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Essential Family Law Statistics You Should Know in 2025

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Family courts are handling diverse caseloads. Of the 66 million cases handled by state courts each year, nearly 3.8 million are family law cases. per 1,000 in 2012 to 7.1 In 29% of marriages , both spouses earn roughly the same amount. That breaks down to 1.09 Divorce rates are declining. per 1,000 people.

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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Regulation of the Legal Profession in China: A Historical Overview; Taxing Composite Transactions; Interpreting Ratification; Nonmarital Fathers in Family Court: Judges’ and Lawyers’ Perspectives; Litigating Precarity: Low-Wage Workers and Child Support Enforcement

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turns to developments since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, and Section IV offers concluding observations. Nonmarital Fathers in Family Court: Judges’ and Lawyers’ Perspectives 99 Washington Univ. Section III addresses lawyer regulation during the high tide of Soviet and the Maoist influence (III.A.), Section III.D.