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Dissolution of a marriage, partnership or relationship of unmarried couples living together, other than by death.

Dissolving a marriage, registered partnership of relationship of two people living together other than by death.

Registered partnership has become popular, but 80 percent of unions were marriages in 2016.

Two people belonging together on the basis of a marriage, a registered partnership or a relationship while living together .

The degree of satisfaction one feels about one’s financial and social position, housing situation, leisure, friends, society, marriage and family.

Population in The Netherlands by sex, age and marital status, 1 January

Order by which, until 22 June 2001, the obligation of living together was lifted while the marriage remained legally binding. Since this date the emphasis in this type of divorce has been more on the...

Marital status resulting from concluding a legal marriage or a registered partnership.

Marital status resulting from death ending a legal marriage or registered partnership.

Ending a legal marriage or registered partnership by the death of one of the spouses/partners.

Legal status involving someone's rights and competences as determined by legal marriage and registered partnership.

A marriage-like relationship recorded at the registry office. Partnership registration is open to same-sex and different-sex couples.

Marital status resulting from ending a legal marriage by divorce, or by ending a registered partnership other than by the death of the partner.

Procedure petitioning a Dutch court to grant a divorce, a legal separation, an annulment of a marriage after a legal separation or an annulment of a registered partnership.

Obtaining the Dutch nationality of non-Dutch children who are recognised by a Dutch father before they reach adulthood or who become legitimate due to his marriage.

A newly formed or immigrated household that becomes the new main occupant of a dwelling and that was not a main occupant of a dwelling in the Netherlands before. (A newly formed household is one...

Of all couples who first started cohabiting in 2000, 53 percent were still living together 15 years later. Almost all of the couples who were still united had one or more children together, while 80...

Of all registered cohabiting couples (including those who are married), same-sex male couples have the highest combined income from work or business, the so-called primary income.

Mixed relationships show strong variations according to migration background

Dissolution of the marriage pronounced by a judge on the basis of legal grounds.

Almost 3/4 of couples with a Turkish, Moroccan or native Dutch background are still together after 12 years.

The second generation of people with a Turkish and Moroccan background are increasingly resembling their native Dutch contemporaries, getting married and having children later. More and more often,...

In 2010 some 34.5 thousand citizens with a foreign background married in the Netherlands. A quarter of these newly weds had a Turkish or Moroccan background.

Last year, one in ten women who married for the first time were over the age of 40 versus one in hundred in 1980. As more and more couples live together before they marry, the marriage date is more...

One in five people who marry nowadays have been married before.