Generally, while getting married, couples wish that they will be together for life and sometimes the relationship is made for seven lives. But it has also been seen that there are flaws in relationships and marriages break up, divorces happen. Recently, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Law Ministry made public the statistics related to divorce.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Law of the UAE, the marriage of a couple could hardly last even a day. In this case of marriage which lasted for the shortest time, the couple got divorced on the very next day of marriage. In contrast, the couple who filed for divorce after the longest marriage had spent 45 years together. Although the couple, who filed for divorce after 45 years, were not residents of UAE but foreigners.
According to statistics, 648 cases of divorce were registered in the UAE in the year 2021. Of these, 311 cases were related to residents living in the UAE while 194 cases were related to foreign countries. The divorce cases pertained to the cities of Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. In the year 2021, a total of 4542 marriages took place in 3 cities.