Pandemic still not to cause scourge of divorce

According to the data of over 40 district courts, in the first quarter of this year, they received a total of nearly 19,900 divorce petitions, which is almost the same as the year before. Compared to the same period of 2020, there was an increase by slightly more than 3 percent, and in comparison with the beginning of 2019, a decrease of almost 8 percent can be seen. From January to March this year, the largest number of such lawsuits were recorded in Poznań – almost 1,300. In turn, the smallest number of them was in Łomża – 149. As experts predict, the plague of divorces is unlikely to happen in the coming years, as some market specialists had previously announced. Their number will even decrease, as marriages are less and less frequent. The next reason, unfortunately, is economics.

"The differences from the three previous years are very small. And they do not reflect the scale of disintegrating marriages in Poland that were forecast last year in connection with the new experiences of couples closed in homes as a result of a pandemic. Today, many spouses in crisis are postponing the lodging of claims for economic reasons, including, for example, jointly repaid and rising mortgage loans. Moreover, a large proportion of people are concerned about the costs of bringing the case to court. It is important to remember that in the last two years some Poles have lost their businesses and have, for example, had to find new ideas for life. And they focused on this by putting personal issues on the agenda," Małgorzata Sokołowska, a solicitor specializing in family matters, said.

(MondayNews)