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Overview
- IBGE data show shared custody in 44.6% of divorces with minor children in 2024, surpassing maternal-only rulings at 42.6% and paternal-only at 2.8%.
- Brazil recorded 428,301 divorces in 2024, a 2.8% decline from 2023, with 82% judicial (350,407) and 18% extrajudicial (77,894).
- Divorces involving at least one child under 18 accounted for 52.5% of cases.
- Shared custody has climbed steadily since 2014, when it was 7.5% of cases and maternal-only custody was 85.1%, following Lei 13.058/14.
- The average time between marriage and divorce fell to roughly 13.8 years in 2024, continuing a long-term shortening of unions.