0 the final stage of a divorce (= a legal agreement to end a marriage), when people become free to marry again
How this was arranged I do not know, but the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted without any difficulties arising.
Norman is getting a divorce—the decree absolute will be granted in March next.
This mode of procedure was, of course, a most expensive one, and during the seventeenth century but three decrees absolute were granted, the parties in each belonging to the peerage and the cause being the same.
Research increasingly corroborates that two years after the decree absolute the majority of children have the most attenuated relationship with their fathers.
For divorcees, the official statistics measure this by the legal definition of marriage duration, which is from wedding day to date of decree absolute.
That can be done for a period of three years after the decree absolute.
Then he is not to make the decree absolute.
