Usually means: Marriage paused, legal obligations continue.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. legal separation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. legal separation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. legal separation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. legal separation: Vocabulary.com
  5. legal separation: Wiktionary
  6. legal separation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. legal separation: Dictionary.com
  8. Legal separation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. legal separation: Rhymezone
  10. legal separation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. legal separation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. legal separation: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. legal separation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. legal separation: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. legal separation: Legal dictionary
  7. legal separation: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legal separation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (legal separation)

▸ noun:  (law) A legal arrangement in which a married couple live in separate homes while remaining legally married.

Similar:
judicial separation, trial separation, separation, separate estate, divorce from bed and board, common-law marriage, final decree, alimony, in-law suite, adherence, more...

Opposite:
reconciliation, reunification, remarriage

Types:
divorce, dissolution, annulment, more...

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Similar:
judicial separation, trial separation, separation, separate estate, divorce from bed and board, common-law marriage, final decree, alimony, in-law suite, adherence, more...

Opposite:
reconciliation, reunification, remarriage

Types:
divorce, dissolution, annulment, more...



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