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3) Check to see if your prospective spouse has parents that have been divorced. If they have been divorced then factor your chances of success downward by it's square root. That percentage for failure continues to increase exponentially for each marriage her folks have had. When a parent has the lawyer on speed dial, that is a good indication that it is the blueprint for her leaving you when the going gets tough.
Id love to know if statistics can prove this true. I've found the opposite in my own life. My mother has been divorced 3 times ( getting married again tomorrow) and my husbands mother was divorced as well.
Because of this and how it affected us, we know on a firsthand basis what it can do to children, especially if its a messy break up. And because of this we talked a lot and worked hard to ensure our marriage was indeed what we wanted before taking the plunge. Our idea was that marriage is indeed forever and that it is something you work on everyday.
Friends of mine from divorced homes had simliar philosophys and so far all of us who have been married have been married longer than our parents. And they're each very happy stable relationships.
Just my own two cents