NOUN
- a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
How To Use judicial separation In A Sentence
- In July 2000, the wife issued proceedings in the Irish High Court claiming a decree of judicial separation and other orders.
- Which, when it was full, they drew to shore -- for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down -- expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away -- literally, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts, which did not give a licence to remarry.
- In the area of family law, meanwhile, it says that people can expect to wait between six and nine months for judicial separations, divorces, annulments and appeals.
- Whenever the court has jurisdiction in the main proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation, then it also has jurisdiction to order such variations.
- Judicial separation proceedings can be started at any time should the full protection of court proceedings be required.
- Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts, which did not give a licence to remarry.
- Judicial separation petitions are issued when marriages have not lasted a year - they must wait a year to get a divorce. Times, Sunday Times
- Judicial separation was available only in the High Court [that is the Irish High Court], where the procedure for instituting proceedings was complex.
- Judicial separation, also called separation, originated from the Canon Law of Christianity in Mediaeval Europe, and still exists today.