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Legal Separation

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Noun

1. judicial separation, legal separation

a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart

2. legal separation, separation

(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Legal Separation

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noun
another term (esp US) for judicial separation

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Legal Separation

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an agreement by which a husband and wife live apart but are not divorced

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Legal Separation

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n.
1. An arrangement terminating the rights and responsibilities of marriage and providing for the disposition of marital property, alimony, and child custody. Unlike a divorce, a legal separation can be revoked, but also may be converted into a divorce in the absence of reconciliation.
2. A court order establishing this arrangement. In both senses also called judicial separation.

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