A British law firm is offering an unusual present for unhappily married couples this Christmas - divorce gift vouchers.
Lloyd Platt & Company in London said it had received hundreds of enquiries since putting the vouchers on sale last month.
Offering couples half-hour or hour-long advice session with an expert family and divorce lawyer, the firm has sold 54 vouchers in three weeks, according to the UKDaily Telegraph.
The firm is calling the vouchers this year's "must have" present, and cost 140 ($220).
"Christmas can be a very stressful time for families as we have always seen by the huge increase of people seeking advice in January," senior partner Vanessa Lloyd Platt told the newspaper.
"The vouchers seem to appeal to an enormously wide spread spectrum of people looking for that 'must have' gift for Christmas," she said.
She said buyers included husbands, wives, mistresses and people using them as a suggestion to their friends and family members.
However the vouchers have been criticised for encouraging people to seek a divorce rather than resolve their problems through counselling or other means.
"It's typical ambulance-chasing by lawyers who are doing this for business reasons," Dave Percival, who organises an annual National Marriage Week, said.
Lloyd Platt said the vouchers offer people "all the practical options available to them - divorce being only one of the options".
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