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No-fault divorce

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  • March 2020

The Government is progressing a Bill to make divorce quicker and easier in England and Wales. The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill will further liberalise our law, which already sees around 100,000 divorces a year.

References

References

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  2. 2 The Telegraph online, 25 February 2013, see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9892705/Businessman-fails-in-bid-to-prevent-wife-divorcing-him-following-a-holiday-row-over-map-reading.html as at 30 January 2020; O’Neill v O’Neill [1975]1 WLR 1118
  3. 3 ‘Unreasonable behaviour (2)’, Terry & Co Solicitors, see http://terry.uk/unreasonable-behaviour-2/ as at 20 June 2019
  4. 4 Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41 at 18-20
  5. 5 Ibid, at 17
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  10. 10 Ibid, page 117
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  11. 11 Goldman, W Z, Op cit, page 296
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  13. 13 Ibid, page 340
  14. 14 Curtis, C, Op cit, page 54
  15. 15 The Centre for Social Justice, Why Family Matters – Comprehensive analysis of the consequences of family breakdown, March 2019, page 4
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  18. 18 Loc cit
  19. 19 Ibid, page 55
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