October 28, 2007	Sunday	Shawwal 15, 1428

VIENNA, Oct 27: Want to get divorced but not sure how it works? Need advice on how you discover if your partner is cheating on you?

Help is at hand in Vienna where the world’s first ‘divorce fair’ opened its doors on Saturday.Titled ‘New Beginning’, the fair hopes to attract those wanting or having to separate. Untying the knot has never been so easy.

Visitors have a chance to speak to lawyers and counsellors as well as private detectives and real estate agents. Dating agencies advise on how to find love again, travel agencies on how to spend holidays without a partner.

A paternity testing firm helps those seeking certainty about their offspring while a party organiser gives tips on how to celebrate the break-up in style.

Many visitors making their way from stall to stall already had experience of parting ways with a loved one. Silvia, 49, got divorced six years ago and is in a new relationship.

“I just wanted to get some information ahead of time, just to be prepared for the eventuality that such a terrible thing could happen again,” said Silvia, not giving her full name.

“Normally you don’t think of these things, you have butterflies, you love each other, you want to live together. But I already got burned.”—Reuters