A report on Divorce
Process of terminating a marriage or marital union.
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Alimony
3 linksAlimony (also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia) ) is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.
Adultery
3 linksExtramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.
Extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.
However, even in jurisdictions that have decriminalised adultery, it may still have legal consequences, particularly in jurisdictions with fault-based divorce laws, where adultery almost always constitutes a ground for divorce and may be a factor in property settlement, the custody of children, the denial of alimony, etc. Adultery is not a ground for divorce in jurisdictions which have adopted a no-fault divorce model.
Marriage
2 linksCulturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses.
Culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses.
Around the world, primarily in developed democracies, there has been a general trend towards ensuring equal rights for women within marriage (including abolishing coverture, liberalizing divorce laws, and reforming reproductive and sexual rights) and legally recognizing the marriages of interfaith, interracial, and same-sex couples.
Child support
2 linksOngoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship.
Ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship.
Child support is often arranged as part of a divorce, marital separation, annulment, determination of parentage or dissolution of a civil union and may supplement alimony (spousal support) arrangements.
Marital separation
2 linksMarital separation occurs when spouses in a marriage stop living together without getting divorced.
Grounds for divorce
2 linksGrounds for divorce are regulations specifying the circumstances under which a person will be granted a divorce.
Get (divorce document)
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A get or gett (גט, plural gittin גטין) is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple.
Annulment
1 linksLegal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.
Legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.
Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place (though some jurisdictions provide that the marriage is only void from the date of the annulment; for example, this is the case in section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in England and Wales).
Child custody
1 linksLegal term regarding guardianship which is used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent or guardian and a child in that person's care.
Legal term regarding guardianship which is used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent or guardian and a child in that person's care.
Decisions about child custody typically arise in proceedings involving divorce, annulment, separation, adoption or parental death.