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Table 50: Divorces by County of Occurrence and Legal Grounds
New York State 1999
Legal Grounds
After After
Abandon- Imprison- Legal Separation Not
Total Cruelty ment ment Adultery Separation by Agreement Stated
New York State 60,200 16,211 36,008 97 316 203 4,966 2,399
New York City 25,384 2,565 21,104 50 63 39 862 701
Bronx 3,050 287 2,592 7 10 4 106 44
Kings 4,860 405 3,784 6 16 9 132 508
New York 12,598 1,379 10,711 28 27 11 366 76
Queens 4,108 441 3,418 7 10 10 213 9
Richmond 768 53 599 2 0 5 45 64
Rest of State 34,816 13,646 14,904 47 253 164 4,104 1,698
Albany 959 283 394 2 8 10 241 21
Allegany 209 152 37 0 0 0 18 2
Broome 745 423 181 1 4 3 120 13
Cattaraugus 274 211 48 0 0 1 11 3
Cayuga 229 128 61 0 1 0 31 8
Chautauqua 444 330 48 0 5 1 31 29
Chemung 353 220 89 0 2 1 33 8
Chenango 174 104 35 0 3 1 23 8
Clinton 249 146 53 1 5 1 37 6
Columbia 205 60 89 0 2 1 50 3
Cortland 165 65 54 0 0 2 42 2
Delaware 143 54 54 0 2 1 21 11
Dutchess 903 260 462 0 8 6 129 38
Erie 2,985 2,273 435 4 4 4 244 21
Essex 102 50 16 0 1 0 30 5
Franklin 174 97 36 0 9 1 28 3
Fulton 208 117 63 0 5 0 19 4
Genesee 230 167 21 2 2 0 33 5
Greene 155 49 63 0 0 1 34 8
Hamilton 15 4 6 0 0 0 5 0
Herkimer 197 106 59 0 4 0 25 3
Jefferson 477 337 101 0 3 2 20 14
Lewis 82 52 15 0 1 0 11 3
Livingston 190 108 44 0 2 1 24 11
Madison 245 150 41 0 2 3 44 5
Monroe 2,453 1,490 438 3 7 10 377 128
Montgomery 157 66 57 0 1 1 24 8
Nassau 4,011 305 3,360 3 9 9 283 42
Niagara 720 595 53 0 1 2 48 21
Oneida 877 558 167 3 10 4 94 41
Onondaga 1,457 682 418 2 15 17 258 65
Ontario 353 232 71 1 1 5 38 5
Orange 996 316 514 0 9 5 136 16
Orleans 171 122 33 0 2 3 8 3
Oswego 451 200 108 0 4 7 77 55
Otsego 163 61 43 0 2 3 45 9
Putnam 309 41 191 1 6 0 31 39
Rensselaer 472 149 217 1 5 2 81 17
Rockland 660 134 397 1 12 3 68 45
St Lawrence 380 243 71 1 0 1 22 42
Saratoga 745 307 233 1 10 5 139 50
Schenectady 470 174 161 0 10 0 122 3
Schoharie 94 39 29 0 0 3 21 2
Schuyler 77 55 10 0 1 2 6 3
Seneca 84 62 14 0 0 0 6 2
Steuben 331 243 39 0 6 1 34 8
Suffolk 4,613 274 3,528 9 15 19 350 418
Sullivan 267 69 100 1 7 0 35 55
Tioga 219 138 52 0 3 1 24 1
Tompkins 290 112 89 0 3 0 84 2
Ulster 579 174 272 2 12 3 102 14
Warren 264 152 60 1 2 0 38 11
Washington 205 116 58 1 4 3 22 1
Wayne 314 209 60 0 0 1 32 12
Westchester 2,266 205 1,513 5 21 12 174 336
Wyoming 168 111 33 0 0 0 15 9
Yates 88 66 10 1 2 2 6 1
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