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The process of divorce in China today has inherited a history of rules and policies which are not known in the West. Despite divorce patterns evolving towards guidelines and policies more familiar to the West, many important particulars of culture, custom, and law still govern the process in China, leading to a reluctance to divorce both by couples and by the judges who oversee divorce. This article lays out those policies and gives two clinical examples: one of almost certain divorce and the other exploring the effect of separation and divorce on a couple's child.