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'No fault' divorce dropped once more

News Team, 08/11/2019

The no fault divorce bill will be dropped once again as the result of the general election.

The UK Parliament officially shut this week (06/11/19), dropping the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill, originally tabled by Baroness Butler-Sloss, alongside all other ongoing bills.

It is a “huge shame that political uncertainty is getting in the way of much-needed progress in the legal system once again,” Ros Bever national head of family law at Irwin Mitchell, said.

It was tabled following the high-profile case of Owens v Owens, where Tini Owens sought to divorce her husband but he had contested it. Mrs Ow...


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