A foreign divorce is a divorce granted in a different jurisdiction or country from the one in which a spouse resides.
[Last updated in July of 2021 by the Wex Definitions Team]
marriage
head of household
Head of household refers to the primary person who provides for a family. The head of household provides practical support and maintenance to persons related to them by adoption, blood, or marriage who reside together; and such obligation is...
impotence
Impotence or impotency means the physical incapacity to copulate. Impotence usually refers to a person's, typically a man’s, inability to consummate the marriage. Impotence could provide valid grounds for annulment of marriage if such a...
incompatibility
Incompatibility refers to persistent and unresolvable differences or irreconcilable conflicts between spouses that make it impossible to continue living together as spouses. Every state now recognizes this to be grounds for no-fault divorce,...
incompatible
To be incompatible means that there are persistent and unresolvable differences or irreconcilable conflicts between spouses that make it impossible to continue living together as spouses. Every state now recognizes this to be grounds for no-...
incurable insanity
Incurable Insanity is a legal grounds for obtaining a divorce under family law. In Scott v. Scott, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina defined the term “Incurable Insanity” as being “so mentally impaired that he/she does not understand...
innocent spouse rule
The innocent spouse rule is one of three types of relief offered by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from the joint and several liability of a joint tax return. The rule provides for relief from responsibility for paying tax,...
joint custody
Joint custody is an arrangement between separated parents where each parent has a degree of control over, and a measure of responsibility for a child. Joint custody involves both physical custody and legal custody. Joint legal...
legitimate
Legitimate has several legal meanings. When it is used as an adjective, it means lawful, or right. It can also be an antiquated term for an individual of lawful parentage or lawful issue, meaning that they weren’t born out of wedlock. In...
lineal consanguinity
Lineal consanguinity is the blood relationship among persons where one is a direct descendant or ascendant of the other. It is the relation in a direct line, such as between a father, son, and grandson.
Lineal consanguinity...