dissolution of a marriage

The most common reason for foreclosure is dissolution of a marriage.

But the case for allowing the dissolution of a marriage shouldn't rest on extreme examples - or just on what's best for women.

No-fault divorce is a divorce in which the dissolution of a marriage does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party.

Under a no-fault divorce system the dissolution of a marriage does not require an allegation or proof of fault of either party.

Dissolution may also refer to the termination of a contract or other legal relationship; for example, the dissolution of a marriage, or divorce.

The dissolution of a marriage, whether initiated by the husband or wife, usually left the divorced females impoverished, as the law offered them no rights to marital property.

With film projections (the cutting of an elm tree stands for the dissolution of a marriage), Ms. Shyer makes her points through declaration rather than development.

The necessary implication of a successful application for the dissolution of a marriage or civil union is that it will remain dissolved even if the missing person reappears.

The play is about the dissolution of a marriage in the context of a savage, Orwellian society that has no use for the idiosyncratic probing of artists.

Where infidelity or the desire for broader sexual expression is the primary cause for the dissolution of a marriage, surely we can find more imaginative alternatives than divorce.

Louis did not, as might be expected, argue the marriage to be void due to consanguinity (the general allowance for the dissolution of a marriage at that time).

"We knew there was a risk in a show that at its core is about the dissolution of a marriage," said Warren Littlefield, president of NBC Entertainment.

In the film Love on the Run, Antoine and Christine were the first couple in the country to divorce under a new law allowing dissolution of a marriage by mutual consent.

There Mr. Bergman's countrymen pondered the dissolution of a marriage - and the emotional and sexual ties that continued to bind the husband and wife through divorce and its aftermath.

"You see, California has this common property act, which states that at the dissolution of a marriage or other relationship, a person pays his or her spouse half of his or her income.

In the poems, she laments the dissolution of a marriage of many years, celebrates her joy at her new independence and then addresses her new husband in a sequence of sonnets.

Distribution of property is the division, due to a death or the dissolution of a marriage, of property which was owned by the deceased, or acquired during the course of the marriage.

HALFWAY through Nora Ephron's best-selling 1983 novel "Heartburn," chronicling the dissolution of a marriage, the narrator, Rachel Samstat, a cookbook writer, issues an apology.

Revenge or anger does occasionally disclose itself in serial killings, and some serial murderers embark on their crimes after experiencing life failures - the dissolution of a marriage, a financial crisis, the loss of a job.

Yet on the basis of the facts available to him Andrewes could be regarded as taking a compassionate line in agreeing to the dissolution of a marriage which was intolerable to both husband and wife and had not been consummated.

Upon a decree for dissolution of a marriage or judicial separation, the court may make orders for the custody, maintenance, and education of the children, for financial provision to be made for the wife, and for varying marriage settlements.

"One immediate and major effect of this naturalism is to transform the film into a love story, but one that doesn't quite fit the shape of the plot that Mr. Nichols has devised, which is that of the dissolution of a marriage," the reviewer said.

Theresia Cabarrus, who had obtained a divorce from her husband, the Marquis de Fontenay (by virtue of a decree of the former Legislative Assembly, which allow--nay, encouraged--the dissolution of a marriage with an émigré who refused to return to France).

Difficult Years A love affair, the dissolution of a marriage and the birth of a baby before remarriage seem tame today, but the American press and the public rose up against her, with one Senator even demanding that the actress "never again be allowed to set foot on American soil."

Luanne Rice's sixth novel, "Home Fires," also about a woman coming to grips with the dissolution of a marriage, starts promisingly enough, with the very dramatic rescue of our heroine, Anne Davis, by our soon-to-be hero, a small-town fireman named Thomas X. Devlin.