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Divorce in ireland

  • 10-01-2017 12:58am
    #1
    stargirl28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Can someone please help - my husband and I are legally seperated for the last couple of months which will ultimately lead to divorce. We have no children together, he has a child by someone else, and we rent. Our only assets per say would be the car that we own. So that leads to my 2 questions...

    1) I heard that divorce laws in ireland changed recently and you only have to be legally seperated for 2 years before applying for divorce as opposed to 4 years. Is this the case as I can't find any documentation online to back this up??
    2) Given we have no children and assets does that mean it would be pretty straight forward as there is nothing to divide up OR do pensions come into it??

    Has anyone been through similar?? Any advice would be hugely appreciated. I'm going mad trying to make sense of all the legal jargon that Google is spitting at me.

    Thanks in advance!!


Comments

  • #2
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #3
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    The 4 year rule is still in effect. There was talk of reducing it but nothing concrete yet.
    It should be pretty straight forward but remember in Ireland there is no clean break from marriage. 10 years down the line and you win the lotto he could potentially claim a chunk of it. Same goes for vise versa also.


  • #4
    stargirl28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭stargirl28


    ken wrote: »
    The 4 year rule is still in effect. There was talk of reducing it but nothing concrete yet.
    It should be pretty straight forward but remember in Ireland there is no clean break from marriage. 10 years down the line and you win the lotto he could potentially claim a chunk of it. Same goes for vise versa also.

    Thanks for the advice. I'd like to see him try haha! First marriage and last. Why is everything so hard in this country!


  • #5
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Have a look through some of the threads here in the Separation & Divorce forum. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1533
    You are not alone.


  • #6
    stargirl28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭stargirl28


    ken wrote: »
    Have a look through some of the threads here in the Separation & Divorce forum. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1533
    You are not alone.

    Thanks. I had a feeling I might have posted in wrong section.


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