Is my Australian divorce legal here?

Pauliedragon · 2019-04-25 19:12:08

Just saw the ad regarding the referendum coming up and didn't realise there was a question regarding foreign divorces and I'm confused a bit. Long story short I lived in Australia with my Irish partner/ wife. We came home and got married here and went back to Aus. We split up over there and all divorce proceedings were…

25-04-2019 07:12PM

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Just saw the ad regarding the referendum coming up and didn't realise there was a question regarding foreign divorces and I'm confused a bit. Long story short I lived in Australia with my Irish partner/ wife. We came home and got married here and went back to Aus. We split up over there and all divorce proceedings were done over there so is that divorce recognised here?

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Yes. It's only if you lived over here and divorced over there it wouldn't be recognised. Happened a friend. Had to go through divorce all over again here.

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