divorce petition
11divorce — di|vorce1 S3 [dıˈvo:s US o:rs] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: Latin divertere to divert, leave one s husband ] 1.) [U and C] the legal ending of a marriage →↑separation ▪ Why doesn t she get a divorce ? ▪ In Britain, one in three marriages …
12petition — [[t]pətɪ̱ʃ(ə)n[/t]] petitions, petitioning, petitioned 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A petition is a document signed by a lot of people which asks a government or other official group to do a particular thing. People feel so strongly that we recently …
13Petition mill — A petition mill is a fraud in which the perpetrator poses as a financial advisor, sometimes as a credit counselor or paralegal, filing hastily prepared bankruptcy documents in the name of victims who come to the advisor as clients. The bankruptcy …
14petition — 1 noun (C) 1 a written request signed by a lot of people, asking someone in authority to do something or change something (+ against): They wanted me to sign a petition against experiments on animals. | draw up a petition: Local residents have… …
15Divorce — In strongly Catholic Italy, the right to divorce was one of the major social and political issues of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The right to legal separation was first proposed in October 1965 by the socialist deputy Loris Fortuna.… …
16petition for — phr verb Petition for is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bankruptcy, ↑divorce …
17Law and divorce around the world — This article is a general overview of divorce laws around the world. Every nation except Malta,the Philippines and the Vatican City allows legal divorce. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSMAN22419320070213 Filipinos celebrate… …
18default divorce — A divorce in which one party obtains a judgment of divorce based on the other party s failure to file a response to the divorce petition. A default divorce can be obtained when one spouse truly can t find the other or when the second spouse… …
19no fault divorce — n. divorces (dissolutions) in which neither spouse is required to prove fault or marital misconduct on the part of the other. To obtain a divorce a spouse must merely assert incompatibility or irreconcilable differences, meaning the marriage… …
20No-fault divorce — Family law Entering into marriag …
