[TBP]

Nah, to answer the title question, divorce [especially a REALLY MESSY divorce] is an incredibly good thing for the smug neighbors who get to assert their own superiority [moral and otherwise] at practically no cost to themselves.

Your neighbors are liberals, I take it.

[GSlob]

"Your neighbors are liberals, I take it."
My neighbors? The intended meaning was the generalized neighbors of the divorcing family. And they do not have to be liberals, just humans.