Title 10
in forceLegal separation and dissolution of marriage after separation
Section 1
Legal separation (scheiding van tafel en bed)
Legal separation (scheiding van tafel en bed) may be petitioned for on the same ground and in the same manner as divorce.
The legal separation (scheiding van tafel en bed) is effected by the registration of the order in the matrimonial property register designated in…
If a community of property existing between the spouses has been prejudiced by one of them because he, after the commencement of the proceedings or…
Upon the petition (application) of a spouse, the judge may, in the order granting legal separation (scheiding van tafel en bed) or by a subsequent…
A legal separation (scheiding van tafel en bed) ends by the reconciliation of the spouses, at the time that they, upon their concordant petition…
Section 2
Dissolution of marriage after legal separation
Dissolution of the marriage of spouses who are legally separated (scheiding van tafel en bed) is pronounced upon the petition of one of the spouses…
If, as a result of the requested dissolution of marriage, an existing prospect of benefits to the other spouse after the predecease of the spouse who…
Dissolution of the marriage of spouses who are legally separated (van tafel en bed gescheiden) is pronounced upon their joint petition.
Articles 154, paragraph 2, and 156 up to and including 160 of this Book apply mutatis mutandis, on the understanding that the periods referred to in…
The dissolution of marriage is effected by the registration of the order in the registers of civil status.