A legal separation involves all of the same issues addressed in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or Registered Domestic Partnership—except the parties are NOT returned to the status of single people. A legal separation resolves the same issues as a marriage or registered domestic partnership – community property is divided, separate property is confirmed, child and spousal or support may be awarded, and child custody orders are made, but the parties remain married.
Some clients erroneously believe a legal separation proceeding as somewhere between marriage or Registered Domestic Partnership and dissolution. However, a judgment of legal separation does not terminate the parties’ marital or Registered Domestic Partnership status; they remain spouses or Registered Domestic Partnership and therefore cannot remarry or enter into a new Registered Domestic Partnership.
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