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(This article focuses on Australian law but points out the worldwide trend)

Good divorce. These two words, which, in decades past, would have formed the definitive oxymoron, appear to have acquired different connotations.

Anecdotal evidence suggests a growing number of couples are splitting up with more goodwill and less anger.

Such couples include actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke who – after their 2004 divorce – avoided a vitriolic public slanging match despite rumours of Hawke’s infidelity.

“I cannot participate in anything critical about my children’s father,” Thurman said, expressing a feeling that might be shared by many of today’s divorcing couples. “I just need to keep peace. I think it’s fair to say that I haven’t said one mean thing, and I’m not going to start now. It’s terrible for my family.”

For his part, Hawke labels his ex-wife “a great mother” to their two children, daughter Maya Ray, 12, and son Levon Roan, 8, and the couple choose to live in the same New York street so they can have maximum access to their kids, with both claiming that raising their children is “a priority”.

via The happy divorce – wellbeing – life-style | Stuff.co.nz.