Definition of Divorce: the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.
Divorce or dissolution, annulment, official separation, judicial separation, separation, disunion, break-up, split, split-up, severance, rupture, breach, parting; khula, talaq
Divorce is an official or legal process to end a marriage
Divorce started in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It was possible to get a divorce granted by Act of Parliament, but such an option was only open to the rich. The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 was the first divorce law of general application. The 1857 Act introduced divorce through the court.
It became legal to divorce in Ireland when the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland removed the constitutional prohibition of divorce. It was effected by the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1995, which was approved by referendum on 24 November 1995 and signed into law on 17 June 1996.
According to the UN, the country with the highest divorce rate in the world is the Maldives with 10.97 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year. This is followed by the Belarus with 4.63 and the United States with 4.34.
A Divorce certificate is also referred to as a Decree Absolute, Divorce Certificate, Divorce Affidavit, Legal Decree, or Divorce Absolute.
You will receive a fully certified legal copy of a Decree Absolute, suitable for official purposes.
Reasons you may require a replacement certificate are:
You have
lost
your decree absolute, or you need a
replacement,
you've been married or in a civil partnership before so you'll need evidence you're
free to remarry
or enter a
new civil partnership,
or you require an
extra copy
or even to find out whether a
friend or relative
has been divorced.
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The Decree Absolute is the final legal document which dissolves the marriage. The Decree Absolute means your divorce is completed and you are no longer married to your partner. The Decree Absolute will legally end the marriage.
Certificates are ordered from the local courts or the Central Family Court. We are an independent agency and are not affiliated with any government body.
