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Abstract
The divorce is of a great social problem that ensues from society and occurred when there is no harmony between the spouses and resulted owing to the failure of the spouses to achieve understanding, harmony and coexistence, even to the minimum, in one house within one family. The divorce occurred and resulted due to several things, the top of which is the deterioration of the family, which is considered one of the basic ties in the society. This is the price for an unhappy, and miserable marriage. The marriage has been known since the establishment of human society, as the beginning of family formation, and divorce has been known as the end of non- mature marital life. Divorce cases for the period (2016 - 2022) reached to (15,563) divorce cases, where the year 2017 ranked the highest one of the highest numbers of 2.635 divorce cases, while the lowest year in the number of divorce cases has been the year 2020, with (1,339) divorce cases, owing to the Corona pandemic in particular. No divorce cases have been recorded in the courts definitely in the fourth and fifth months. In respect to “Al-Sadr / the first” and “Al-Sadr /the second”, “Al-Sadr /the first” came in first place for the year 2023 with a percentage of 58%, while “Al-Sadr /the second”, its percentage reached to 42%. Actually, one of the most important reasons for the occurrence of divorce in the research area was due to the lack of family and psychological harmony between the spouses, in addition to the housing problem and family disputes.