For couples who will eventually divorce, the divorce risk function increases monotonically as the marriage continues, and the slope of each line (i.e., the rate of divorce) also increases gradually for different marriage cohorts.
There are many variations in between, including partial community property in which all assets acquired during marriage (excluding inheritances) are jointly owned, but property brought to the marriage continues to be held by the one who brought it.
He came home, but the marriage continued to founder.
Rumours about the state of the marriage continued to emerge, usually in the Sunday newspapers, and usually dismissed as 'downstairs gossip'.
Despite all of this, the marriage continued to flounder, and the time came when we met in our marriage counselor's office and I said, "I think it's over".
There was never again an official separation between Tracy and his wife, but the marriage continued to be troubled.
Haunted by dowry-related debts The practice of dowry given by the bride's family to the groom at the time of marriage continues to be a curse for many households.
Mr. Spitzer's opinion, unusual for both the speed with which it was produced and the intense interest it generated, capped a day in which the issue of same-sex marriages continued to roil both the state and country.
Child marriage widespread Despite progress made over the past several decades, child marriage continues to be widespread around the world.
This is important, because The Case for Marriage continues to be cited uncritically, not just by the right-wing and the marriage movement, but even in academic publications, by people who should know better.
