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judicial separation

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judicial separation
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Noun1.judicial separation - a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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When the secular arm of the law was raised to capture Lady Margery of Longford, she had already initiated an application for a judicial separation and brought a bill before Chancery, as mentioned above.
Many of the purported legal issues--including land inheritance, which set rural Ireland so solidly against the issue in a previous referendum that met defeat in 1986--had been more or less spelled out in the Judicial Separation Act of 1986 and succeeding pieces of legislation.
Judicial separation in the ecclesiastical courts could be used by wives to improve the financial terms of an existing separation or by husbands to avoid paying alimony to an adulterous wife, and a judicial separation became one of the necessary steps to obtain a parliamentary divorce, a full divorce with right to remarry granted to an individual by an act of Parliament as an exception to the role of the indissolubility of marriage.
 
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