Legal Separation
Divorce,
or dissolution, as it is increasingly becoming known, a legislatively created,
judicially administered process that legally terminates a marriage no longer
considered viable by one or both of the spouses and that permits both to
remarry. Until the divorce reform movement of the 1970s began to have an
impact, the legal doctrines governing divorce could be understood only by
reviewing the long history of English divorce law, which was dominated by
concepts of canon law.
Separation, in the law of domestic relations, either a separation agreement, that is, a contract entered into between husband and wife by which they agree to live apart; or a judicial separation, a court decree that separates the parties to the marriage and provides for their living apart. Separation does not dissolve the marriage relationship. A separation agreement contains provisions for the custody and support of minor children, as well as for the division of property between the parties.
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