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2. Legal separation - Wikipedia

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   Legal separation (sometimes judicial separation, separate maintenance, divorce a mensa et thoro, or divorce from bed-and-board) is a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a de facto separation while remaining legally married. A legal separation is granted in the form of a court order.

3. Divorce - Wikipedia

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   Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. [1] Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.

4. Law applicable to divorce and legal separation regulation

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   As one legal scholar noted: “The substantive law pertaining to legal separation continues to differ widely between the Member States: from Maltese law where there is a prohibition of divorce to Finnish of Swedish law where no actual grounds of divorce are required.” [3] In addition, the law and legal culture in these countries varies on ...

5. Divorce in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, marriage and divorce fall under the jurisdiction of state governments, not the federal government. Although such matters are usually ancillary or consequential to the dissolution of the marriage, divorce may also involve issues of spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt.

6. Marital separation - Wikipedia

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   A separation can be initiated informally, or there can be a legal separation with a formal separation agreement filed with the court. As for a divorce, the latter may include provisions for alimony , whether to have sole custody or shared parenting of any children, and the amount of child support .

7. Annulment - Wikipedia

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   Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void. [1] 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.