If your marriage or civil partnership fails, we can advise you in relation to the dissolution of that partnership.
To obtain a divorce or dissolution, it is necessary to show that the marriage or civil partnership has irretrievably broken down. That is demonstrated in one of four different ways:
- One spouse has behaved unreasonably and the other spouse cannot reasonably be expected to live with them
- One spouse has deserted the other for a continuous period of two years before presentation of the divorce petition
- The spouses have lived separately and apart for a continuous period of two years before presentation of the divorce petition and the respondent spouse agrees to a decree being granted
- The spouses have lived separately and apart for a continuous period of five years before presentation of the divorce petition
