Just three of 989 requests for divorce have been turned down by the Family Court to date, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told Parliament in reply to a question by Opposition Whip David Agius.

There were 35 other requests for divorce filed in Gozo, with 27 of them having been accepted to date.

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