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Family Law
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Getting engaged
Engagements are mainly for cultural reasons
and have limited status. However, they can
be used, for example, in immigration law as
evidence of intention to marry.
One of the parties can decide to end an
engagement as an agreement to marry cannot
be legally enforced. If an engagement is
broken, a woman can keep the engagement ring
unless, at the time she was given it, the
man specifically said that it should be
returned if the engagement were broken. Any
other property belonging to the couple
should be divided between them in the same
way as property would be divided if the
couple divorced. If the couple cannot agree
about entitlement to property, either person
can apply to a court to decide the issue,
provided this is done within three years of
the end of the engagement. Legal advice will
be needed in these circumstances, search for
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Divorce
A divorce cannot be applied for until the
couple have been married for at least one
year. There are no exceptions to this rule.
To get divorced in England and Wales, the
marriage must be recognised as valid by
United Kingdom law and one of the partners
must:-
» be living in England or Wales when the
divorce is applied for
» have been living in England or Wales
during the year before the application is
made.
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