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Can someone please tell me the difference between a Decree Nisi and a Decree Absolute? Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Divorces come in two stages. Once the court have checked all of your papers and confirmed that they are in order and that you are entitled to a divorce, they will then give you a decree nisi. This is not your actual divorce. In order for your marriage to be ended you will need to apply for the decree nisi to be made absolute no less than six weeks after decree nisi.
So laymans terms.....Nisi is stage one, absolute is stage two and the final cut.
No problem, QM. What I hate - and it has happened - is when I post an answer and then you give one of your excellent answers complete with chapter and verse, completely contradicting mine. Wasn't it Abraham Lincoln who said that it is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt?