filing for divorce
Legal marital termination
Filing for divorce is the formal legal act of submitting paperwork to a court to end a marriage.
The person who files initiates the process and becomes the petitioner.
She's filing for divorce after twenty years.
The phrase implies the marriage has reached a point of no return—you don't file for divorce casually.
- separationState of being apart
- legal separationFormal marital split, not dissolution
- lawyerLicensed legal representative
- attorneyLicensed legal representative
- petitionFormal written appeal
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- divorcedivision of assets, grounds, legal separation, alimony, child support
- breakupsbreakup, breaking up, dumped, dumping, it's over
- separationseparate, sieving, straining, divide, filtration
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Entering matrimony
tying the knot · exchanging vows · getting hitched · eloping · wedding
filing for divorcereconciling
Resolving a dispute
getting back together · getting engaged · falling in love · recommitting · making up
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