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Change the law to prevent uncontested divorce applications being rejected

Submitted on Thursday 9th September 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 15th September 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: fake-name (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the law to prevent uncontested divorce applications being rejected

Petition Details

At present, courts can reject an uncontested divorce application, signed by both parties, if they do not believe that there is sufficient evidence/reason to prove that the marriage has irretrievably broken down. The law should be changed so that courts cannot reject uncontested divorce applications.

Additional Information

Courts should not have the power to decide if a marriage has broken down; they should not have the power to decide if reasons given constitute unreasonable behaviour and they should not be able to reject an uncontested divorce application.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

If you want to resubmit your petition, you should be clearer about the change you want the Government to make to existing divorce rules. For example, you could start a petition calling on the Government to allow couples to divorce by agreement without needing to apply to a court, if that's something you would like to happen.

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