Divorce is often a complicated, emotional, and messy undertaking in the best of situations, and can be even more so for members of the military. Although legally divorce is the same for military ...

Heather Sweeney and her 2 children are outside the apartment they moved into after her divorce. Sweeney's debut memoir about military life and divorce will be released Oct. 28. (Photo courtesy of ...

A gavel sits in the Luke Air Force Base courtroom (U.S. Air Force Photo, Airman 1st Class Grace Lee, Wikimedia Commons). Dual-veteran divorce is uniquely complicated because military retired pay, VA ...

WASHINGTON — The divorce rate in the armed forces held steady last year at 3.3 percent, a surprising finding given the stress that marriages are under during persistent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.