When a marriage or civil partnership breaks down, both people might want to legally dissolve the bond. A married person petitions for a divorce. A civil partner applies for a dissolution. You can’t apply for divorce or dissolution during the first two years of your marriage or civil partnership.
A divorce petition must be grounded on one of the reasons below:
- two years’ separation with the consent of the other spouse to divorce
- five years’ separation
- unreasonable behaviour
- adultery
- desertion
A dissolution of civil partnership must be due to one of the reasons below:
- two years’ separation with the consent of the other partner to dissolve the partnership
- five years’ separation
- unreasonable behaviour
- desertion
