Divorce – void or voidable?

February 2025 | Family
In an unfortunate coupling of a drafting ambiguity and a coding error, the President of the Family Court has concluded that 79 divorces were voidable rather than void. The consequences of a divorce being declared void would have been significant, eg a remarried party would have committed bigamy. In the case of a voidable divorce, …
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