Divorce is a law that makes formal a married couple’s break up.
Divorces are more often as the years go by. So let’s find out more about it!
- Divorce is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.
- It is formally known as dissolution of marriage.
- Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage.
- It is also dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.
- Divorce laws vary considerably around the world, but in most countries, divorce requires the sanction of a court or other authority in a legal process.
- When getting divorced you need to resolve issues of distribution of property, child custody, alimony (spousal support), child visitation/access, parenting time, child support, and division of debt.
- In most countries, monogamy is required by law, so divorce allows each former partner to marry another person.
- Divorce used to be illegal some years ago in many countries.
- Divorce is different from annulment.
- An annulment declares the marriage null and void.
- The only countries that do not allow divorce are the Philippines, the Vatican City and the British Crown Dependency of Sark.
- In the Philippines, divorce for non-Muslim Filipinos is not legal unless the husband or wife is an… alien and satisfies certain conditions divorce is still not allowed.
- The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical state, which has no procedure for divorce.
- Countries that have relatively recently legalized divorce are Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Andorra, , Ireland, Chile, and Malta.
- As of 2016, both marriage rates AND divorce rates in the US are decreasing.
- There are different types of divorce.
- There is a contested type of divorce.
- This means that one of several issues are required to be heard by a judge at the trial level.
- There is also the at-fault divorce.
- This means that divorce is someone’s fault.
- This type of divorce required proof by one party that the other party had committed an act incompatible to the marriage.
- This was termed “grounds” for divorce (popularly called “fault”)
- Before the 60s this was the only way to terminate a marriage and… get a divorce!
- There is a summary divorce for when both people agree on taking a divorce.
- There is also the… electronic divorce.
- In Portugal, the electronic divorce allows two people to file an electronic request for no-fault collaborative divorce in a nonjudicial administrative entity.
- In specific cases, with no children, real property, alimony, or common address, can be completed within one hour
- Marriage Story is a recent movie that depicts the issue of divorce.
- In the movie, the couple agrees on the divorce, but they also have a child.
