Rectifying Divorce Decrees
Recent case determines true legal marriage date, rather than legal ceremony date, to be used in divorce decree.
Rectifying divorce decrees and considering the case of more than one marriage ceremony: to which should the divorce decree refer?
In a recent case, X v Y [2020] EWHC 1116 (Fam), an error of process was corrected to rectify a divorce granted in 1997.
The decrees nisi and absolute had referred to a marriage ceremony that took place in 1994, rather than the true legal marriage in 1993.
You can read more about this case in this Family Law Hub article, accessible through this link.