It’s almost the most popular time for divorce in San Diego County

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

Lord Alfred Tennyson

In San Diego County, you can track that lost love by the month at the county courthouse. And there’s no more popular time for marriage dissolution filings than August. Just over a thousand couples untie the knot that month, on average.

NBC 7 Investigates discovered several patterns when we requested data from the Superior Court of San Diego County. We looked at filings from 2018-24. For our analysis, we took out data from 2020. The court system was closed for several months that year, and including those months would have skewed averages…

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