Legal Separation

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1. What happens to the marriage bond under a decree of legal separation?
2. Which is an expressly listed Article 55 ground for legal separation?
3. What does Article 60 say about a decree based only on stipulated facts or confession of judgment?
4. A spouse obtains a final decree of legal separation and relies on that decree alone to contract a new marriage while th…
5. An aggrieved spouse has validly condoned the act that is the sole pleaded ground for legal separation. No later distinc…
6. Spouses arrange for an apparent statutory offense solely to manufacture a legal-separation ground, then collude to obta…
7. A petitioner proves a listed Article 55 ground but the respondent also establishes that both spouses have independently…
8. Explain why legal separation permits separate living but is not itself a basis for remarriage.
9. A petitioner proves a statutory legal-separation ground but valid condonation of that sole cause is also established. E…
10. Describe Article 60's protection against collusive legal-separation decrees. Can the spouses simply stipulate that a gr…
11. What filing does 65 require when legally separated spouses reconcile?
12. Under 66, what happens to still-pending legal-separation proceedings upon the stated reconciliation?