Tanya Foster
- 3 min
No Fault Divorce
Divorce without fault? On 13 June 2019 the long-awaited Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill received its first reading. The Bill is intended to introduce ‘no fault’ divorce into English law, replacing the current fault-based grounds for divorce. The present position Currently, to divorce, a divorce applicant must state that they consider the marriage to have irretrievably broken down, and they evidence this with one of five facts. The facts are: adultery, unreasonable b
