Marriage and Divorce Laws of the WorldRingrose, Hyacinthe
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Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World
Ringrose, Hyacinthe
Divorce -- Law and legislation; Marriage law
26-27 Brother's Son's Wife, Sister's Son's Wife (nephew's wife).
28-29 Wife's Brother's Daughter, Wife's Sister's Daughter (niece by
affinity).
A woman may not marry her:
1 Grandfather.
2 Grandmother's Husband.
3 Husband's Grandfather.
4-5 Father's Brother, Mother's Brother (uncle by blood).
6-7 Father's Sister's Husband, Mother's Sister's Husband, (Aunt's
Husband, _i.e._, uncle by affinity).
8-9 Husband's Father's Brother, Husband's Mother's Brother (husband's
uncle).
10 Father.
11 Stepfather.
12 Husband's Father (father-in-law).
13 Son.
14 Husband's Son (stepson).
15 Daughter's Husband (son-in-law).
16 Brother.
17-18 Husband's Brother, Sister's Husband (brother-in-law).
19-20 Son's Son, Daughter's Son (grandson).
21 Son's Daughter's Husband (son's son-in-law).
22 Daughter's Daughter's Husband (daughter's son-in-law).
23 Husband's Son's Son (stepson's son).
24 Husband's Daughter's Son (stepdaughter's son).
25-26 Brother's Son, Sister's Son (nephew).
27-28 Brother's Daughter's Husband, Sister's Daughter's Husband
(niece's husband).
29-30 Husband's Brother's Son, Husband's Sister's Son (nephew by
affinity).
GROUNDS OR CAUSES FOR DIVORCE.--A husband is entitled to a divorce if his
wife has committed adultery, but a wife is not so entitled unless her
husband has committed incestuous adultery, bigamy, rape, sodomy,
bestiality, adultery coupled with cruelty, or adultery coupled with
desertion without reasonable excuse for two years or more. Incestuous
adultery is adultery with a woman within the prohibited degrees.
A wife will not be granted a decree of divorce on the ground of her
husband's adultery coupled with cruelty unless the cruelty relied on
consists of bodily hurt or injury to health, or a reasonable danger or
apprehension of one or the other of them. There must be at least two acts
of cruelty on the part of the husband.
The communication of venereal disease when the husband knows of his
condition is an act of cruelty.
PROCEDURE.--The application for a divorce is made by a petition to the
Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.
The party seeking relief is called the petitioner, and the party against
whom the petition is brought is called the respondent. The party with whom
a husband alleges his wife has committed adultery is called the
co-respondent. The person with whom a wife alleges her husband has
committed adultery is not a party to the suit. However, a woman implicated
in a divorce suit may, upon proper application, secure an order permitting
her to attend the proceedings as an intervener.
Divorce proceedings in England are very expensive; the costs in an
ordinary uncontested suit amount to from thirty to forty pounds sterling.
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