{"id":70896,"date":"2018-05-06T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70896"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:05:44","slug":"guardian-log-in-break-up-the-new-easy-way-to-get-a-divorce-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70896","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Log in, break up \u2013 the new \u2018easy\u2019 way to get a divorce online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking up is never easy, as Abba sang, but the Ministry of Justice is so pleased with its online divorce pilot that it has launched the scheme nationwide this month.<\/p>\n<p>The latest initiative in the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/oct\/31\/online-divorce-extended-in-1bn-justice-system-shake-up\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">department\u2019s \u00a31bn modernisation programme<\/a>\u00a0enables couples splitting up across England and Wales to complete their applications on a website without going to court.<\/p>\n<p>Language has been simplified for the digital form, allowing payments and evidence to be uploaded from home. More than 1,000 petitions were issued through the system during its test phase, with 91% of users, according to the MoJ, reporting that they were satisfied with the service. Sir James Munby, the judge in charge of the high court\u2019s family division, recently described online divorce as a \u201ctriumphant success\u201d and \u201cfinal proof positive that whatever people think, government can do IT [information technology]\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/may\/06\/easy-divorce-online-couples-avoid-stress-of-court\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking up is never easy, as Abba sang, but the Ministry of Justice is so pleased with its online divorce pilot that it has launched the scheme nationwide this month. The latest initiative in the\u00a0department\u2019s \u00a31bn modernisation programme\u00a0enables couples splitting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70896\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,199,168,114,98,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-internet","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70898,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70896\/revisions\/70898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}