divorce
离婚,离异,离职
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- : a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage in whole or in part, especially one that releases the marriage partners from all matrimonial obligations.Compare judicial separation.
- : any formal separation of husband and wife according to established custom.
- : total separation; disunion: a divorce between thought and action.
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di·vorced, di·vorc·ing.
- : to separate by divorce: The judge divorced the couple.
- : to break the marriage contract between oneself and by divorce: She divorced her husband.
- : to separate; cut off: Life and art cannot be divorced.
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Though breakups and divorces don’t typically bring about happy feelings, the big D word certainly is bringing happiness to R&B singer Keyshia Cole.
I think we might find other people who were married to him or are still married to him and are trying to get an annulment or a divorce and can’t locate him.
In 2018, a woman in the northern Somali town of Lasanod told a district court while asking for a divorce that her construction worker husband was spending most of his wages on khat and regularly beating her with electrical wires.
Since her divorce, Scott—who announced a name change from Bezos in July—has emerged as a prominent philanthropist.
Hormones also equip us to handle daily and long-term stresses — such as high-stakes exams or divorce in the family.
If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.
The pair began their relationship in 2007, and went public with it in 2010 after her divorce was finalized.
She moved out a month later, and du Pont subsequently filed for divorce.
Divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.
Quite frequently, the statute provides that there shall be no dower in case of divorce for the wife's fault.