Divorce
Termination of marriage in Canada is covered by the federal Divorce Act (RSC 1985 c. 3 (2nd Supp.)).
A divorce may be granted for one of the following reasons:
- the marriage has irretrievably broken down, and the two parties have been living apart for a year (s.8(2)(a) of the Act)
- one party has committed adultery (s.8(2)(b)(i) of the Act)
- one party has treated the other party "with physical or mental cruelty of such a kind as to render intolerable the continued cohabitation of the spouses" (s.8(2)(b)(ii) of the Act)
Key headings of the Divorce Act:
Interpretation
Jurisdiction
Divorce
Child support orders
Spousal support orders
Priority
Custody orders
Variation, rescission or suspension of orders
Provisional orders
Appeals
General
Read more about this topic: Marriage In Canada
Famous quotes containing the word divorce:
“Ever since you came back from Tibet I’ve had a feeling you were planning to divorce me and marry a laboratory.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)
“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“This habit of free speaking at ladies’ lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)