Litigation of Nominations and Dispositions Favoring Stepchildren Under Pre-Divorce InstrumentsLitigation of Nominations and Dispositions Favoring Stepchildren Under Pre-Divorce Instruments

According to the Step Family Foundation (the Foundation), “the majority of families have shifted from the original biologically bonded mother, father and child. We’re now a nation in which the majority of families are divorced. Most go on to remarry or form living together relationships.”¹ The Foundation further cites the following statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Census:

1,300 new stepfamilies are forming every day;

Over 50% of U.S. families are remarried or re-coupled;

The average marriage in America lasts only seven years;

One out of two marriages ends in divorce;

75% of divorced individuals remarry;

66% of those living together or remarried break up when children are involved;

80% of remarried, or re-coupled, partners with children both h...