0 the final stage of a divorce (= a legal agreement to end a marriage), when people become free to marry again
In incorporating these amendments we have accepted that it is excessive to make a decree absolute automatically void.
Under the present law financial and property orders are made after a decree nisi but are not carried into effect until after the decree absolute.
We have only to look at the position after the decree absolute.
This is the clause under which in certain circumstances the court has power to refuse to make a decree absolute.
In those cases, the pension-sharing order, as varied, would take effect immediately so long as the decree absolute had been granted.
Our arrangements provide for a copy of the leaflet to be issued with the copy of a decree absolute sent to the wife.
However, they further recommended that a voidable marriage should be treated as valid until the decree absolute was made.
One can quickly see that that is a significant change in the present law where the court has to wait until the decree absolute.
