California State court grants divorce on both no-fault and fault grounds. It is mostly deemed as a liberal State.
It had been a problem for few decades to find out the exact divorce rate in the state, because the number of divorces jumped higher than that of the marriages in a particular year. Annulment rate was also very high during this period. Though, divorce rate was 5.8 % per 1,000 of the population according to the statistics of 1980. The recent estimation has predicted a divorce rate of 0.38% per capita per year.
