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.
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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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