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The initial draft of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Law written by the NCCUSL committee would direct judges to grant the petitioner's request to end the marriage if the judge found that the marriage was "irretrievably broken", a term which this draft did not define. [53] Since the term "irretrievably broken" was not defined, the committee ...
Regardless of the terminology used, all states allow parties to divorce if the marriage breaks down and the couple agrees that the marriage will not work. [7] In order to attain a divorce on grounds that the marriage is over, the couple is required to prepare an affidavit that the marriage is irreparably broken and sign it under oath. [7]
The marriage must have taken place at least one year before any application is made. [17] Before the change in April 2022, there were five 'facts' that may have constituted grounds to show why a marriage had irretrievably broken down. They were: Adultery respondents admitting to adultery were not to be penalised financially or otherwise.
Glenna Bevin, wife of former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, filed for divorce on Wednesday, saying their nearly 27-year marriage “is irretrievably broken.”
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Marriage is available in England and Wales to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and is legally recognised in the forms of both civil and religious marriage. Marriage laws have historically evolved separately from marriage laws in other jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. There is a distinction between religious marriages, conducted by an ...
Biermann again described his marriage as “irretrievably broken,” as he did in his original filing. He requested full legal and physical custody of their four minor children, as well as alimony ...
The petition for divorce described the marriage as irretrievably broken and asked that a prenuptial agreement signed about a month before their April 21, 2017, wedding be validated and enforced. The prenuptial agreement was sealed.