Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 11, 2008
Long Division
Although amendments to Family Code Section 2337 were intended to afford both parties greater protection, the burden put on the requesting party for a bifurcation of marital status is quite onerous, write Mitchell A. Jacobs and Tam B. Nguyen. - Focus Column
By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Tam B. Nguyen
This article appears on Page 7
As divorce cases tend to get more complicated, obtaining a final judgment dissolving the marriage is prolonged. Family Code Section 2337 permits the parties to sever for early adjudication the issue of dissolution of marriage (commonly called bifurcation of marital status) and reserve the court's jurisdiction to later determine ...
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