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Divorce Fairs The very first ever divorce or `break up’ fair was held in Austria. Around 500 people and 20 exhibitors attended the first ever divorce fair at the Vienna Marriott Hotel in October 2007. The fair gave advice on how to organise a post-married life, and to help couples to untie the knot as painlessly as possible.

The two-day fair was held under the motto “New beginning”. The event allowed would-be divorcees to consult lawyers about their rights and seek advice. The divorce rate in Austria hit an all time high of 50% in 2006, with 66% of marriages in Vienna ending in divorce.

The Saturday was reserved for men, and Sunday for women, so couples could avoid awkward encounters and retain a degree of anonymity. There was also a series of lectures on subjects like how divorce affects children and coping as a single parent.

In 2008 there were divorce fairs in Holland and Switzerland, as high divorce rates fuel the need for such events.

The first ever divorce fair held in England was called the Starting Over Show and took place in Brighton 2009. The Starting Over Show differed from divorce fairs in other European countries because it did not allow private detectives or DNA testers to exhibit, on the basis that the events took a forward looking, holistic, non-combative approach to family break up and divorce.

The culture of the Starting Over Shows is one of providing information and inspiration to the visitors, and encouraging them to consider collaborative law and financial mediation as a way forward. Consequently, the need to ’segregate’ the sexes as in the Austrian event does not occur at SOS, as that would go against the inclusive ethos of the show which hopes also to attract visitors going through civil partnership breakups which are happening now in Brighton and elsewhere in the UK.

Further events ran in March 2010 in Brighton, and the first ever divorce fair to be held in London was a Starting Over Show event. Unlike the other 'divorce fairs' in Europe, these English events hope to encourage changes in divorce law and reform that will lesson the financial burden on the State incurred by the number of broken families and the divorce process, and also the damage done to children through a combative approach to break up.

The creator of these UK divorce fairs is Suzy Miller: Divorce Strategist™, a Public Speaker and Trainer, featured on Radio 4 Women’s Hour, the Daily Mail and C5’s The Vanessa Show. Suzy Miller created the UK's 1st Best Way To Split Retreats in 2018 to provide a more holistic, workshop-based way to help individuals learn how to have a better way to divorce.

The first US Divorce Fair took place in New York in the spring of 2012, and was called 'Start Over Smart'.

The first divorce….

A perfect replica of the letter sent by British nobles to Pope Clement VII in 1530 demanding a divorce for Henry VIII was hailed by historians as crucial to understanding why England is a Protestant country when it was unveiled in Rome on 23 June 2009.

“To understand England we need to have this document in mind,” said the historian David Starkey, who was present at the launch in Rome.

When the pope denied Henry VIII the divorce he craved from Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, the English king broke with Rome.

The above information is kept updated by the organiser of the UK Divorce Fairs and ensuing Retreats, Suzy Miller: Divorce Strategist™

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References[edit]

  1. For a brief history of divorce see this Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/19/divorce-law-history
  2. A brief history of divorce fairs http://www.startingovershow.co.uk/index.php/recent-history-of-divorce-fairs/
  3. Austria holds first divorce fair BBC News 17 October 2007
  4. Opening the doors to divorce BBC News 14 March 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7942797.stm
  5. Press reports relating to Suzy Miller: Divorce Strategist™ https://alternativedivorcedirectory.co.uk/press-media/
  6. 1st Best Way To Split Retreat https://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/divorce-retreat-opens-at-ashdown-park-hotel-1-8616859

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