Marilyn Stowe, author of Divorce & Splitting Up: Advice From a Top Divorce Lawyer, spoke to The MailOnline about family lawyers’ busiest day.
She said: 'for many people, Christmas continues to be an expensive, exhausting, miserable slog.'
'Parents take on the festive chores year in, year out because they feel that they must and combine this with around the clock childcare. By the time Christmas is over, tempers have frayed and the children are under-stimulated and bored, making for an explosive environment not least because there is so much alcohol consumed over Christmas.’
'Many of my clients have complained about the hard work over the holidays, cooking all the food and the pressure to spend money they haven't got. Credit cards get filled, there is the never-ending rounds of relations and friends. No wonder some relationships crumble under all this added pressure.’
It is thought that, sadly, the pressures of Christmas and the amount of time that families spend together bring to the forefront problems that lead to divorce.
An added factor to this date being such a busy day for family lawyers is that many couples want to hold off until after the festivities are over before legally ending their marriage.
Whilst Christmas may be a happy time for people across the country, for some families it can be a sad and stressful time.
Hopefully those seeing family lawyers will find some happiness later on in 2014.