Family courts can deal with a variety of issues. Examples include division of marital assets and retirement benefits, determination of residence of children, and assignment of property. Family court caseloads remain large for reasons like these. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 672,502 divorces and annulments in 45 states plus D.C. in 2023. This figure comes with a rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population. Provisional data from the CDC also lists 2,041,926 marriages in the country for 2023.
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