Couples will be able to divorce online for £65 from later this month.

Divorce-Online, which will begin advertising its cut-price service on television shortly, says the basic service can be completed in just 16 weeks. Another “managed service” which costs £250 allows couples to get divorced without even taking time off work. The company has designed its TV advert to show that an uncontested divorce, where both parties agree on their finances and arrangements with children, does not have to be an expensive process.

The company denied it was cashing in on other people’s misery, saying that there was a demand for their “no-frills” service.

In 2005 there were 155,052 divorces in England and Wales, representing a divorce rate of almost one in three.

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