Divorce Rates for Lawyers

While little evidence exists on the subject, there is some evidence that lawyers have a higher divorce rate than the rate of other professions generally.  One commentator has observed that lawyers are more apt to experience divorce and marital problems.  [See Patrick J. Schiltz, "Lawyer Well-Being in Large Firms: Choices Facing Young Lawyers: On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession," 52 Vand. L. Rev. at 878 (May 1999); Walt Bachman, Law v. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say about The Legal Profession at 22 (1995).]