Celebrity divorces fuel spike in divorce questions

Information released by Avvo, Inc., the American online legal and health advice website, has revealed a correlation between celebrity divorce in the news and increased demand for consumer legal advice concerning divorce.

Questions on Avvo.com about divorce spiked in the first half of 2012 to a five-year high, driven in part by high-profile, celebrity divorce cases. Key trends include:

• An increase of 51% questions about divorce over the previous six months.
• Fueled by interest in the Tom/Kat divorce, nearly 6,500 divorce questions were asked on Avvo.com during the week of June 25-29, the most ever reported in a single week.
• Californians asked the most questions about prenuptial agreements (15%) followed by Texans (12%).
• The divorce question with the most views in the last six months: "Is there a difference between a legal separation and a separation agreement under NY divorce laws?" has been visited more than 3, 290 times.