51 Refusal of recognition
Family Law Act 1986 (1986 c 55) | Legislation

51  Refusal of recognition

(1)     Subject to section 52 of this Act, recognition of the validity of—

(a)     a divorce, annulment or judicial separation granted by a court of civil jurisdiction in any part of the British Islands, or

(b)     an overseas divorce, annulment or legal separation,

may be refused in any part of the United Kingdom if the divorce, annulment or separation was granted or obtained at a time when it was irreconcilable with a decision determining the question of the subsistence or validity of the marriage of the parties previously given (whether before or after the commencement of this Part) by a court of civil jurisdiction in that part of the United Kingdom or by a court elsewhere and recognised or entitled to be recognised in that part of the United Kingdom.

(2)     Subject to section

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