legal separation


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How to use legal separation in a sentence

  • Moreover, mere unhappiness, mere disappointment of the affections, does not establish a claim for legal separation.

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  • He had legally married his wife, but he did not bother about getting a legal separation.

British Dictionary definitions for legal separation

legal separation

noun
  1. another term (esp US) for judicial separation

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