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Annulment

act of nullifying or making void. A judicial or ecclesiastical declaration that a marriage is void. Unlike a divorce, an annulment establishes that marital status never existed in law, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 89.

separate

: to cause the separation of vi : to undergo a separation [the couple separated last year] compare divorce

separation

between a married couple by mutual agreement with intent that it be permanent ;also : legal separation compare divorce NOTE: In some cases in which the estrangement is extreme, a separation is considered to have occurred even

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annul

annul an·nulled an·nul·ling 1 : to declare (a marriage) to have never validly existed compare divorce 2 a : to make legally void b : to declare to no longer have legal effect

separation agreement

child support, or other matters in the separation of a married couple [incorporated the separation agreement into the divorce decree]

Dissolution of Marriage

Dissolution of Marriage. See DIVORCE.

absolute

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Divorcement

Dissolution of the marriage tie divorce separation

Desertion

317. In Scotland, malicious desertion by one spouse of the other for four years is a ground of divorce. It must be shown that there was wilful non-adherence; that it has been persisted a for four years;

Adultery

which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa

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