CHEATING spouses are getting away with it in divorce cases — as partners prefer to separate on other grounds.

Cases of adultery being cited for splits have halved in ten years, official statistics reveal.

Only 9,205 divorces were blamed on affairs in 2018 — down from 20,765 in 2008 and 36,310 20 years ago.

Another study showed that only a third of married couples felt an affair would break them up.

Sir Paul Coleridge, of the Marriage Foundation, said: “I think people are more grown up than they used to be and realise a single act of adultery does not tell you much about the cause of a break-up.

“The cause is the broken relationship and the adultery arises out of it.”

Solicitor Graham Coy added: “There can be a protest affair where you are trying to raise a flag. And if someone needs hundreds of thousands of pounds to be rehoused, do you reduce that as they had an affair?”

He added that spouses no longer had to name the person that their partner cheated with — and private detectives are not being hired to catch out cheats.

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