Happy New Year! Lets get divorced

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When courts opened today after a New Year break, British lawyers were rubbing their hands in glee as they were flooded with a surfeit of calls from sparring couples desperate to head to splitsville on grounds as serious and trivial as infedility and boredom.

Christmas season is considered the peak time for cheating with office flings providing prime grounds for separation.

Throw in family rows, financial worries, and disappointing presents, and the boom in New Year divorce proceedings means those in the marital profession branded today D-Day, or Divorce Day.

A recent survey by InsideDivorce.com found that men had lost their role in society and unhappy partners commonly cited infidelity, abuse, boredom and lack of sex as grounds for a split.

It surveyed 100 British law firms, and 2,000 people who were either married, divorced or separated.

It found that almost one in five of all marriages was on shaky ground, with partners believing it could end in divorce.

Men or women often went to see a solicitor without their partner's knowledge, to try to find out about their options and end up proceeding with a divorce at some stage, the Telegraph quoted Suzanne Kingston, a family lawyer, as saying.

The long Christmas holidays gave people more opportunity to argue. Moreover, at New Year people often make resolutions and think about what they want for the future.