Overview
- Courts logged 16,444 separations, divorces and annulments from July to September, a 14.9% year‑on‑year drop, according to the CGPJ.
- Non‑consensual filings drove the fall, with divorces down 40.8% to 4,417 and separations down 21% to 147, while consensual divorces rose 2.2% to 11,437.
- Spain’s dissolution rate stood at 33.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, with Madrid below average at 31.5 and the highest rates in the Canaries and Balearic Islands at 41.9.
- Murcia remained among the highest‑rate regions at 37 per 100,000, recording 581 cases (−8.2%) as consensual divorces jumped 34.3% to 423 and non‑consensual divorces fell 53.6% to 137.
- Related family‑measure requests showed the same split: consensual modifications rose 5.1% to 2,734 nationwide as non‑consensual modifications fell 44.1% to 4,681, with Murcia mirroring the trend.