18 years of separation due to mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict: Can an unfaithful husband also get a divorce? — Standards for allowing divorce for the at-fault spouse

18 years of separation due to mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict: Can an unfaithful husband also get a divorce? — Standards for allowing divorce for the at-fault spouse

This is a case in which a husband, who had lived separately for 18 years due to conflict with his mother-in-law and had a history of infidelity, filed for divorce. The court granted the divorce, finding that the husband’s fault had been diluted by the long separation and that the wife also bore equal responsibility for the breakdown of the marriage. We examine the standards, established through case law, under which divorce by a spouse at fault is exceptionally allowed.
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