If a married couple is unhappy they should be allowed to proceed at whatever pace best suits their diverce-related needs. There’s no way that a spouse with one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel should be forced to attend a bunchof counseling sessions with the person they’re trying to leave.
More government intrusion will NEVER fix anything.
Counseling should be available to those couples that desire it, but never required of those that don’t.
Over the years I've learned that the most common practice during the Great Depression was for an aggressive young man to put his efforts toward buying more land "cheap".
I know of one fellow who ended up owning SECTIONS ~ that's a really huge chunk of land ~ by anybody's standard ~ and he never married momma ~ and adopted out all his kids.
When I got to know about them the kids were still trying to reassemble the family. Momma had already died.
By adopting them out the guy sought to disinherit everyone ~ except for the daughter he was sleeping with.
There's still some of that going on up there.
I would like to see government out of the marriage/divorce game completely. I know some people here will say what about the children. My response is because someone made a bad choice on who to have sex with you are going to steal money from me (i.e. taxes) to enforce child support payments, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc.
Get rid of all these federal and state programs, return it to the local communities to help these people. I know this would be harsh but I bet this would put a stop to unwed mothers and would cut the divorce rate considerably.