Over 200,000 divorces each year has made divorce law one of the most relevant legal fields of the German Civil Code. The revision of the volume containing §§ 1564-1568 and the regulation on the division of household effects (HausratsVO) brings this commentary up to date with the latest in case law. Our suggestion: this volume in combination with the Staudinger volumes on maintenance after legal separation or divorce, pension sharing, parental custody and international divorce law offers a comprehensive presentation of divorce and its consequences.