Jul. 3, 2023
Cultural Divorce, Part VIII: Marrying your mother-in-law
Next time you are asked to file for divorce of a client married in another country, test it for its validity where contracted. You may be surprised. A marriage entered in a foreign jurisdiction must be tested for validity (or invalidity) in the Jurisdiction where it entered first. California Petition for Dissolution, FL-100, and its legal source, i.e., Family Code Section 2200, may not be applicable.
The Petition for California Dissolution, FL-100, offers two boxes to designate a void marriage: incest and bigamy. These designations are legally ambiguous and culturally inadequate. A California attorney and a culturally oriented client look at the void marriage from two different horizons. As family law attorneys we have learned that getting to the shining "city" of marriage passes through the security gate of a "...
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