Delaware has an estimated divorce rate of 4.0% per 1,000 state residents.
According to a national survey conducted in 2003, the overall divorce rate fell on average by 5.6% in the United States. The highest divorce rate in all 50 states at that time was in Delaware.
Delaware’s marriage rate has dropped by 6.4%; yet its divorce rate has increased by 64.72%.
Delaware law has this to say about a married couple's attempt at reconciliation: "Any efforts made to achieve reconciliation prior to divorce, even those that include sleeping in the same bedroom and resumption of sexual relations, shall not interrupt (emphasis added) any period of living separate and apart, provided that the parties have not occupied the same bedroom or had sexual relations with each other within the 30-day period immediately preceding the day the Court hears the petition for divorce." Delaware Code - Title 13 - Chapters: 1505
