Staying focused on enhancing our country’s civil rights policy in the midst of a pandemic and its accompanying woes is no easy feat. And, yet, that is precisely what we did last week with the proposed amendments to the divorce law of 2011 that I tabled in parliament.
What I have proposed is that couples who are already separated at law may immediately apply for a divorce while those couples who are living separately can, through a joint request, apply for a divorce after six months or after a year in cases in which the parties disagree on the request for divorce.