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Jamaica
The legal system in Jamaica is modeled after the English judicial system. Therefore, the laws related to the formation and dissolution of marriage in Jamaica are derived from English laws. Marriage is governed by the Marriage Act, and the legal dissolution ...
- Children, Families, and Parenting
- Absentee Parents
- Adult Children: Relationships
- Adult Children: Relationships With Parents
- Birdnesting
- Blended and Binuclear Families
- Children as Caretakers
- Children Blaming Themselves for Divorce
- Children, Staying Married for
- Children: Benefits of Divorce
- Children: Risk for Early Sexual Activity
- Children's Fear of Divorce
- Kinship and Foster Care
- Nuclear Family
- Parental Alienation
- Parental Dating
- Parenting Adolescents
- Parenting Coordinators
- Parenting Early School-Age Children
- Parenting Infants
- Parenting Late School-Age Children
- Parenting Preschoolers
- Parenting Toddlers
- Relocation Effects on Children
- Single and Custodial Fathers
- Single and Custodial Mothers
- Stepparent–Child Relationships
- Stepparenting
- Stepparents After a Second Divorce
- Stepsibling Relationships
- Substance Abuse in Children of Divorce
- Culture, Society, and Popular Media
- African Americans
- Asian Americans
- Bigamy
- Celebrity Divorces
- Child Support: Social Issues
- Childbearing Decisions
- Collectivism
- Comedy About Divorce
- Commitment
- Covenant Marriage
- Cultural Sociology of Divorce
- Culture of Divorce
- Divorce Rates Versus Crime Rates
- Empty-Shell Marriages
- Gender and Divorce
- Glamorization of Divorce
- Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Individualism
- Internet as a Cause of Divorce
- Juvenile Delinquency
- LGBT Marriage
- Literature: Adult
- Literature: Children's
- Marriage: Avoidance
- Marriage: Multicultural
- Marriage: Multiracial
- Monogamy
- Music
- Native Americans
- Politicians and Divorce
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Poverty
- Relationships
- Social Change
- Social Networks
- Social Problem, Divorce as a
- Social Stigma
- Television Shows
- Theater and Film
- Economics and Law
- “Deadbeat” Parents
- Abduction and Kidnapping of Children
- California's Family Law Act of 1969
- Child Advocates
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Child Support: Government Enforcement
- Children's Legal Rights
- College Financial Support for Children
- Costs of Divorce
- Custody: Children's Voices
- Custody: Schedules
- Custody: Shared and Joint
- Custody: Sole
- Debt Division
- Fault and Child Custody
- Fault and Property Division
- Fault and Spousal Support
- Financial Hardships
- Gender and Divorce Law
- Grandparents' Legal Rights
- Judges: Family Law
- Law: Asian Traditions
- Law: Comparative Perspectives
- Law: Hispanic Traditions
- Law: Islamic Traditions
- Law: Negotiating Tactics
- Law: United Kingdom
- Law: United States
- Lawyers
- Length of Marriage: Divorce Law
- Mediators
- Palimony
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Property Distribution
- Property: Marital
- Separation: Legal
- Spousal Support and Alimony
- Stepparents' Custody Rights
- Uniform Marital Property Act
- Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act
- Visitation Rights
- Waiting Period
- Effects of Divorce
- Adult Children: Effects of Divorce
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Adolescents
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Early School-Age
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Infants
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Late School-Age
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Preschoolers
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Toddlers
- Children: Immediate Effects of Divorce
- Children: Long-Term Effects of Divorce
- Families: Effects of Divorce
- Families: Extended
- Friends, Loss of
- Health: Adults' Physical
- Health: Children's Physical
- Job Performance
- Life Expectancy
- Maternal Employment: Effects on Children
- Mental Health
- Pain Versus Pathology
- School Performance of Children of Divorce
- History of Divorce and Marriage
- Africa
- Alimony Law, U.S.
- Asia
- Colonial America
- Common-Law Marriage
- Custody: U.S. Law
- Europe
- Grounds for Divorce, U.S.
- Historical Figures and Divorce
- Marriage: History
- Middle Ages
- Origins of Divorce
- Property Division Law, U.S.
- Roman Empire
- Scholars of Divorce
- United States: 1800 to 1850
- United States: 1851 to 1900
- United States: 1901 to 1950
- United States: 1951 to 2012
- Psychology
- Abandonment: Children's Fears
- Adult Children: Fear of Commitment
- Alone, Fear of Being
- Attachment and Loss
- Attachment to Former Partner
- Attachment: Parent–Child
- Children: Fear of Conflict
- Children's Fear of Change
- Counseling and Education: Divorce
- Counseling and Education: Marriage
- Counseling and Education: Premarital
- Depression in Children of Divorce
- Depression in Divorced Adults
- Family Systems Theory
- Grief and Grieving
- Loneliness
- Psychotherapy for Adults
- Psychotherapy for Children
- Psychotherapy for Families
- Suicide Risk
- Support Groups
- Religion
- Risks for and Causes of Divorce
- Abandonment or Desertion
- Abuse of Children: Sexual
- Abuse of Children: Verbal and Physical
- Addiction
- Adultery and Infidelity
- Age at Marriage
- Alcoholism
- Children as a Risk for Divorce
- Cohabitation Before Marriage
- Death of a Child
- Disability and Illness
- Domestic Violence
- Education Level and Divorce Risk
- Ethnicity and Race in the United States
- Finances
- Growing Apart
- Infertility
- Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Length of Marriage: Risk of Divorce
- Marriage: Sexual Problems
- Maternal Employment: Risk of Divorce
- Men as Initiators of Divorce
- Mental Cruelty
- Midlife Crisis
- Military Service
- No-Fault Divorce Versus Divorce Rates
- Religion: Lack of or Different Faiths
- Risk Factors
- Second Marriages
- Sexual Orientation
- Women as Initiators of Divorce
- Workaholism
- Types of Divorce
- Pro Se Divorce
- Absolute Divorce
- Annulment
- At-Fault Divorce
- Childless Divorce
- Collaborative Divorce
- Electronic Divorce
- Informal Divorce
- International Divorce
- Late-Life Divorce
- LGBT Divorce
- Mediated Divorce
- No-Fault Divorce
- Separation: Trial
- Simplified Divorce
- Therapeutic Divorce
- Typologies of Divorce
- Uncontested Versus Contested Divorce
- U.S. States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia (State)
- Hawai'i
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington State
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- The World
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia (Nation)
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States: 1800 to 1850
- United States: 1851 to 1900
- United States: 1901 to 1950
- United States: 1951 to 2012
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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