Utah's marriage rate is 10.6 per 1,000 residents – well above that of the United States, which stands at 8.7. Utah's divorce rate is 4.3 per 1,000 – slightly higher than the United States divorce rate of 4.1.
The median age at divorce in Utah for husbands in first marriages is 31 years; for wives it is 29. Divorces come for 18% of Utah married couples in the first year of marriage. That figure rises to 50% at the five-year mark, and 70% by the tenth year.
Divorce and related financial stresses affect 75% to 80% of welfare recipients in Utah.
According to American Demographics magazine, 52 percent of all Utah marriages end in divorce; the national average is 49 percent.
You are required to prove at least six months of consistent marriage counseling before you can file for divorce in Utah.
If you file for divorce before you have gone to counseling, the state will assign a counselor, whom couples must work with for six months.
Divorcing couples with children must take court-sanctioned parenting classes before the divorce is finalized in Utah.
Both you and your estranged spouse are required by the state of Utah to attend these four-hour parenting classes on your own time. Refusal to do so can result in a contempt of court ruling by the judge.
