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For many years, January was widely considered "Divorce Month" by divorce attorneys who experienced a dramatic upturn in business immediately following the holiday season.

However, according to a new analysis of divorce filings and searches for divorce-related information on the Internet, March is the true "Divorce Month" in America.

According to American company FindLaw, searches for "divorce" and related phrases such as "family law" and "child custody" jumped 50% from just over 10,000 in December 2010, to nearly 16,000 in January 2011, and continued to surge through March.

Along these same lines, analysis of divorce filings across the U.S. between 2008 and 2011 revealed that divorces spike in January, continue to rise and peak in late March.

A recent study has found that men get over a divorce much quicker than women, and are twice as likely to consider getting remarried, reports the Huffington Post.

According to the study, which was carried out to promote a film's DVD release, 47% of men would be keen to marry again after going through a divorce, compared to only 20% of divorced women.

The study also found that around 31% of divorced men, but only 19% of women, had tried internet dating, and 42% of divorced men were so keen to meet a new partner that they would be prepared to pay for professional dating advice.

A couple from Italy who are to divorce at the ages of 99 and 96 look set to become the world's oldest divorcees, a record previously held by a British couple who were both aged 98 when they divorced, reports the Telegraph.

The marriage of the Italian couple had not been without its problems, but the final blow came when the 99-year-old man found old letters indicating that his wife had had an affair during the 1940s. Despite the amount of time that had passed, he immediately requested a divorce, bringing an end to 77 years of marriage.

A recent report from America has shown that divorce rates for the over-50 age group have more than doubled over the last thirty years, and is expected to keep rising, reports Ohio.com.