More and more men are doing more child rearing during the marriage. As a result, more men are seeking significant parenting roles after divorce, sometimes asking to be primary residential parents.
It means a little more work but if it saves you thousands of dollars, then it's worth it.
It should be as simple as filling out a form for your driver's license. I don't know why it's so complicated.
In a more typical case...you'll save $3,000 to $4,000 per spouse. So for the family, that's quite a bit of money.
If there was discontent before and the holidays are another opportunity to face one another across the table and be disappointed again, that will only reinforce the idea about divorce.