Abstract :
ABSTRACT
The purposes of this study were 1) to identify the factors that led to contested
divorce in the jurisdiction of the Muara Bulian Religious Court during the Covid?19 pandemic, and 2) the efforts of the Muara Bulian Religious Court in
overcoming the issue of contested divorce. This type of research is empirical. The
data collected were primary and secondary, while data analysis was carried out
descriptively. The results of the study showed that the factors causing divorce in
the Muara Bulian Religious Court during the Covid-19 pandemic were constant
disputes and quarrels, economic factors and leaving one of the parties, where
these three factors became the most dominant factors. the background to the
occurrence of a contested divorce in the jurisdiction of the Muara Bulian
Religious Court during the Covid-19 pandemic. The effort of the Muara Bulian
Religious Court to resolve the divorce issue was to carry out mediation efforts
which were carried out in private between the mediator, namely the Judge at the
Muara Bulian Religious Court, and the husband as the defendant and the wife as
the plaintiff. However, the percentage of mediation efforts to resolve divorce
cases in the Religious Courts is smaller than those who decide to divorce. Advice
to married couples in Batanghari Regency to really consider the reasons that are
indeed serious to be used as material for consideration of filing a divorce suit, so
that divorce cases that occur are not only based on minor factors.
Keywords: causal factors, divorce contested, the covid-19 pandemic