Marital Dissolution (Divorce)

The term divorce refers to the process of obtaining a judgment of absolute divorce which legally dissolves and terminates the marriage. A claim for a divorce is separate from, and does not include, claims for custody and support of children, post separation support and alimony, and equitable distribution of property and debts.

In North Carolina there is customarily only one ground for divorce (the other ground is when one of the parties is incurably insane); that is the separation of the parties for more than one year. You cannot file the complaint until a year and a day following the date of separation. One of the parties must have been a resident of North Carolina continuously for the six months prior to the filing of the complaint.

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