NOUN
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
How To Use legal separation In A Sentence
- They are expected to stop short of recommending full structural separation, opting instead for a legal separation. Times, Sunday Times
- They are expected to stop short of recommending full structural separation, opting instead for a legal separation. Times, Sunday Times
- His views were studiously ignored for both sides were now committed to a legal separation. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
- Domestic laws are patchy and unevenly applied in poor countries, and TNCs can avoid prosecution by exploiting the legal separation between parent companies and their subsidiaries.