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Alimony
is allotted to a wife after final decree. Alimony is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Probate and Divorce Division. The Court may direct its payment either to the wife herself or to a trustee on her
property
: property acquired by either spouse during the course of a marriage that is subject to division upon divorce NOTE: In community property states, marital property is the same as community property and is divided equally upon
merger
bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, res judicata 5 : the superseding of a prior agreement in a divorce case by the divorce decree 6 a : the act or process of merging b : absorption by
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reconcile
account for vi : to become reconciled ;specif : to voluntarily resume cohabitation as spouses prior to a divorce becoming final with the mutual intention of remaining together and reestablishing a harmonious relationship [denied the complaint for
Divorcive
Having power to divorce tending to divorce
Divisions of the High Court
five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most part those who sat in the
Divorced woman
Divorced woman, means a Muslim woman who was married according to Muslim law, and has been divorced by, or
Full Court
Full Court. The Judge Ordinary, with two other members of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, constituted the Court of Appeal, and in some instances the Court of original jurisdiction, under
Judge
(English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 1935 (25 Geo. 5, c. 2), s. 1. In the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division there is the President and two judges. In the Court of Appeal, in addition to
Nullity of marriage
respectively, with reference to the intervention of the king's proctor, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. See INTERVENTION, and Browne and Latey, Divorce.
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