AIBU to think that divorce is the end of a marriage is common knowledge?

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Someone has attempted to sue their lawyer for not telling them that a divorce would end their marriage.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-claims-lawyers-should-have-told-her-divorce-would-end-her-marriage-9051550.html

How odd.

I read some of the comments - loving how they turned this into a rant against the EU.

Also, this was my first facepalm of the day, I'm sure it won't be my last.

HowCouldSheNotKnowTiggaxx

WTF?

I can't believe that any judge etc would take this seriously.

Wow! Does worry me though cos my ex is Catholic and we still aren't divorced after 3 years - he's dragging his heels. Need to get divorced as i'm now engaged!

I am shocked, and not much shocks me but really, where has she been living.

Surely in the eyes of the RC church she remains married unless/until she secures an annulment?

I've been wondering what she thinks divorce is if it isn't to end a marriage.

Oh FFS.

I suspect either it's not her that wanted the divorce and this is about torturing the ex, or she was trying it on for the £££!

Crazy , what did she think divorce was going to do to her marriage?

If she wanted advice on the religious aspect, then that's what her priest is for!

Her being Catholic is irrelevant to legal advice. Yes, she is still regarded as married by canon law unless she secures an annulment, but that would have no legal standing whatsoever. Her lawyers were not to know she was both bizarrely ignorant of what divorce meant, and unwilling to get one when her marriage had presumably broken down...?

And presumably, even assuming it was her ex who sought the divorce, can't you be divorced against your will? I thought it just took longer than a mutually-agreed one.

She sounds like the client from hell. I refuse to believe anyone as vehemently Catholic is not fully aware of what it meant given the opposition the Church has to it (and I say that as someone from a nominally Catholic family, not that I bought in to it)

To the poster who thinks her ex is holding up proceedings,just press on. You cannot be forced to stay married.

Canon law will treat him as still being married and if it bothers him he can still petition for an annulment. A "very good Catholic" friend almost did this. Went through with her divorce and Was told by her priest as they had used contraception,"which she must have been forced to do by her husband" the marriage had been a sham so could still be annulled if she wanted to remarry.

I refuse to believe that anyone could be so dense.

Maybe the actual point of the case is that she would of been better to legally separate than to actually divorce, but wasn't advised of this?

She's already been through two different law firms though, so she is clearly a nightmare.