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As many as one in every eight divorce petitions that are submitted to the court contain false accusations according to family law group Resolution. In order for a couple to become divorced prior to them having been living separately for two years, they must rely on the grounds of either adultery or unreasonable behaviour with relevant examples needing to be cited and, following them having conducted research into this, Resolution are claiming that these grounds are frequently fabricated by couples looking to end their marriages prior to them having been living apart for two years. As part of their research, Resolution discovered that 27 per cent of the couples that relied on either unreasonable behaviour or adultery (57 per cent of all petitions filed in England and Wales) created false accusations in order to obtain their divorces. These findings have led the group’s chairperson, Jo Edwards, to claim that the prospect of waiting for two years before filing for a divorce is both financially and emotionally untenable for many people and, as this leads many of them to provide the courts with false information, that fault should be removed from divorce proceedings entirely. Conservative MP Kevin Bacon has added support to Edwards’s contention and will argue that the law should be changed during a ten minute motion that he intends to deliver to the House of Commons in due course.