Helen Kirwan-Taylor, writing for the Wall Street Journal Europe today, describes a new trend in divorces:  The civilised divorce.

She says she first noticed the trend when a friend showed her a professionally taken black and white Christmas card of a recently divorced couple from Stockholm. “There they were smiling away on the card with their immaculately dressed children, even though inside they posted separate addresses below their names.”

This couple, writes Kirwan-Taylor, have a personal Civilised Separation Agreement in which they agreed to protect the children, respect one another, split everything down the middle fairly and never quarrel openly.

Think this will catch on in America?