Question 11: Does the regulations of the Law on Marriage and Family require both spouses to have marital separation time before applying for divorce? If so, what is the minimum duration for such marital separation time? Must marital separation be understood as not related to sexual relation or related to the absence of sexual relation and the fact that the spouses do not live together in the same living place?
A marital separation is only a social term and not a legal term. In practice, a marital separation is a situation where the spouses suspend living together, or no longer taking care of each other and no longer having a physical relationship with each other. However, such suspension of living together has not yet terminated…