Divorce and the Law on Getting Divorced: Difference between revisions

Divorce is the legal termination of a marriage by an order of the court; without this order, a couple will remain married to each other no matter how long they've been separated. Although a divorce order represents the formal conclusion of a marriage, where children are involved or one spouse is financially dependent on the other, issues about the payment of support and the care of the children will survive.

This page will provide an overview of the grounds for divorce, and discuss the nature of a divorce order and the effect of foreign divorce orders in Canada. It will also review the do-it-yourself divorce process, and the court forms used in that process, in enough detail that you can get your own divorce without having to hire a lawyer.  

The criteria which must be met to obtain an annulment, which is different than a divorce order and isn't nearly as simple and straightforward as most people think, are discussed in the page on [[Married Spouses]].