Marriage dissolution lawsuits, among which are marriage annulments, separations or divorces; they have been reduced by 34% in the courts of the Canary archipelago between 2007 and 2019, according to data from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
According to a press release from the CGPJ, the civilian judicial organs of the Islands computed 2007 a total of 7,428 requests for matrimonial dissolutions, and last year, 2019, they registered 5,536, 34% less. Throughout last year, the insular judicial office computed 5,536 requests for marriage breakdown, 2.7% less than in 2018, the year in which 5,691 processes of dissolution of married couples were processed in the Canary Islands.
Consensus divorce is the most common way in the Islands to break ties with the couple. Last year, in the Archipelago, 73 non-consensual separations were computed (2.7% less than in 2018), 116 consensual separations (23.4% more than the previous year), 2,412 non-consensual divorces (-3.6%), 2,929 consensual divorces (-2.9%) and 6 annulments (+ 6%). By province, Las Palmas accounted for 2,774 breakdown processes last year, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2,762.
At the national level, the marriage dissolution lawsuits filed during 2019 totaled 109,567, which represents a decrease of 1.9 percent compared to those filed in 2018. This downward trend has been repeating uninterruptedly since 2015 according to the data collected by the Statistical Service of the General Council of the Judiciary.
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