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Couples can divorce inside 24 hours
Married couples can now get divorced within 24 hours - if they don't mind travelling to the Caribbean.
Legal firm QuickdivorceUK.com said there is strong demand as uncontested divorces take three to five months in the UK.
The £4,500 deal includes return flights to the Dominican Republic, a hotel room, lawyer and court costs.
Only one person needs to travel, with the other signing over power of attorney, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The country's quick turnaround of divorces has attracted US couples, with singer Mariah Carey splitting from music executive Tommy Mottola there in 1998.
QuickdivorceUK.com founder Aimee Edwards, 26, said: "Why should divorce take so long and be so expensive for couples when they both agree to it?"
But Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: "Any system that allows swift, no-fault divorces devalues marriage."
what do you think?
Michael Lawrence
Divorce is a long process for a reason. Alot of married couples fight, Sometimes they fight to the point where they want to leave eachother. But in the end they realise that in the heat of the moment they did and said the wrong things. If the "I WANT A DIVORCE" becomes "We're Divorced" inside of 24 hours then what hope is there for marriage to survive hardships? Don't wanna take forever to divorce? Don't get Married.
Rhys Sage
5:49pm on 13/2/2012
Norman Wells speaks the truth