Divorce also would be governed by the secular law, and maintenance of a divorced wife would be along the lines set down in the civil law.

Likewise, legislation enacted by the federal Parliament in matters of private law, such as the Divorce Act, is to be interpreted following the civil law tradition and in harmony with the Civil Code of Quebec.

For instance, the federal Divorce Act is valid legislation, even though the Divorce Act has some incidental effects on child custody, which is usually considered to be within the provincial jurisdictions of " civil rights " ( s. 92 ( 13 )) and " matters of a private nature " ( s. 92 ( 16 )).

The 1918 Decree on Divorce eliminated the religious marriage and the underlying ecclesiastical law, by replacing them with civil marriage sanctioned by the state.

Today, civil divorce and remarriage without a get ( Jewish Bill of Divorce ) has become commonplace, while Jewish marriage is popular even among the less-religious.

In 1858 he was named the first divorce judge-in-ordinary of the new Probate, Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court which replaced the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and created the remedy of civil divorce.

* Wallerstein, Judith, Ph. D., " The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce ", an analysis of the long-term effect of divorce on children ; NPR interview ( 2001 )

Following his conversion and remarriage, he and his wife wrote about struggles with divorce and alcoholism in Back On Course: The Remarkable Story of a Divorce That Ended in Remarriage.

An example was divorce in Canada prior to the passage of the Divorce Act of 1968.

Divorce legislation introduced in 1857 allowed for a man to divorce his wife for adultery, but a woman could only divorce if adultery were accompanied by cruelty.

Divorce mediation is an alternative to traditional divorce litigation.

Divorce mediators may be attorneys who have experience in divorce cases, or they may be professional mediators who are not attorneys, but who have training specifically in the area of family court matters.

He depicted her as a hypocrite in his newspaper, saying that the Divorce Reform Bill she opposed allowed women to have the kind of divorce she had had in America.

Sean O ' Connor's efforts to secure custody of his children in a country which routinely denied custody to fathers and prohibited divorce, motivated him to become chairman of the Divorce Action Group and a prominent public spokesman.

In case of divorce, the rules for administering the Divorce Act were retained using Quebec's old community property matrimonial regime until 1980, when new legislation brought an automatic equal division of certain basic family assets between spouses.

This powerful study of contemporary manners was followed by Un Divorce ( 1904 ), a defence of the Roman Catholic position that divorce is a violation of natural laws, any breach of which inevitably entails disaster.

Huxley's contemporary C. S. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce about the divorce of Heaven and Hell, in response to Blake's Marriage.

For example, prior to the passage of the Divorce Act in 1968, there was no uniform federal divorce law.

Divorce law changes during the late 19th century gave rise to a New Woman who could survive a divorce with her economic independence intact, and an increasing number of divorced women remarried.

* Canada's new Divorce Act introduces no fault divorce

Its first victorious campaign was the creation in the mid 1960s of the Italian League for Divorce ( Lega Italiana per il Divorzio, LID ) which was the first to succeed in marshalling together all the secular political forces into a unified political alliance thus getting the law on divorce approved.

The Indian Divorce ( Amendment ) Act of 2001 has brought in considerable changes in the grounds available for divorce.

Wilson was responsible for piloting the Divorce Reform Act, 1969 through Parliament which changed the basis for divorce procedures from the old concept of matrimonial offences to that of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage.

* November 26-A recount in the Divorce Referendum reveals that a majority of the electorate has voted in favour of divorce.

During the 1995 divorce referendum, he was spokesman for the Youth Against Divorce campaign.

Divorce may be instituted unilaterally by the husband by pronouncing talaq, " I divorce you " three times.

* Divorce: McManus is an opponent of the no-fault divorce law.

Divorce was not simple in those days, but Rixi obtained a judicial separation and a subsequent divorce in 1947.

However, in 1968, the Divorce Act was amended to permit divorce for other reasons, including physical and mental cruelty and separation for at least 3 years.

Divorce ( or the dissolution of marriage ) is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties ( unlike annulment, which declares the marriage null and void ).

Free of the brother-sister constraints of the former pairing and with a new partner ( Claire Luce ), he created a romantic partnered dance to Cole Porter's " Night and Day ", which had been written for Gay Divorce.

Divorce was a legal but relatively informal affair which mainly involved a wife leaving her husband ’ s house and taking back her dowry.

One of the first major men's rights organizations was the Coalition of American Divorce Reform Elements, founded in 1971, from which the Men's Rights Association spun off in 1973.

His principal legislative achievements were the passing of the Divorce Act 1857, and of the Land Registry Act 1862 ( generally known as Lord Westbury's Act ), the latter of which in practice proved a failure.

It replaced the constitution of Czechoslovakia ( 1960 Constitution of Czechoslovakia ), which split into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic by act of parliament on January 1, 1993, through the so-called Velvet Divorce.

These include the reality-based revival of Divorce Court, which was originally presided over by Mablean Ephraim and is now helmed by Lynn Toler ; the short-lived Power of Attorney which featured various high-profile attorneys arguing cases for litigants in front of Andrew Napolitano ; Street Court, which took litigation outside of the courtroom ; and Jury Duty, which featured an all-celebrity jury hearing cases presided over by Bruce Cutler.

The book drew inspiration from the geography of Dante's Inferno and the theology of C S Lewis's The Great Divorce, which is that salvation and entry into paradise, via self-knowledge and repentance, can be achieved by all.

This case caused the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to pass the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 which diluted the secular judgment of the Supreme Court and, in reality, denied even utterly destitute Muslim divorcées the right to alimony from their former husbands.

In 1986, the Congress ( I ) party, which had an absolute majority in Parliament at the time, passed an act The Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act 1986 that nullified the Supreme Court's judgment in the Shah Bano case.

The provision in question is Section 3 ( 1 )( a ) of the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 which states that " a reasonable and fair provision and maintenance to be made and paid to her within the iddat period by her former husband ".

In " Divorce Venusian Style ," the pair meet the alien, whose world was apparently destroyed ( which hints as to why it wants to protect humanity ) and calls Earth one of the few remaining " garden planets.

Divorce was provided for on a number of grounds ( e. g. impotence or homosexuality on the husband's part ), after which property was divided according to what contribution each spouse had made to the household.

Her most popular ' talkies ' included Almost a Divorce ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), Leave It to Smith ( 1933 ), I Was a Spy ( 1933 ), Jew Süss ( 1934 ), A Cup of Kindness ( 1934 ), Vintage Wine ( 1935 ), The Divorce of Lady X ( 1938 ), which starred her son-in-law Laurence Olivier, A Son Is Born ( 1946 ) and Of Human Bondage ( 1946 ).