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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 20



20.(1) Where the court grants a decree of judicial separation it shall no
longer be obligatory for the petitioner to cohabit with the respondent.

(2) If while a decree of judicial separation is in force and the separation is
continuing either of the parties to the marriage dies intestate as respects
all or any of his or her real or personal property, the property as respects
which he or she died intestate shall devolve as if the other party to the
marriage had then been dead.

Para.(3) rep. with saving by 1980 NI 5 art.42(1)(2)(b) schs.2, 4



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