Talk:Legal separation

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Title is misleading because the body is more specific than it represents. SD6-Agent 03:22, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Ambiguous in one part
In the first numbered section, 'A mensa et thoro separation' this statement is made:

"The legitimacy of any future child born to the couple remains intact, and the spouses may not legally remarry."

I'm assuming this means they may not legally marry someone other than each other? Because technically, they can't remarry each other because they're still married to each other, yes? Common sense tells me that if they tried to apply for a marriage license to marry each other, they wouldn't be granted one because a clerk would rightly point out they are already married and any ceremony would effectively be a vow renewal but I'm by no means law-knowledgeable so I'm looking for confirmation of my understanding of exactly what that sentence is saying and hopefully, someone to amend it for the ignorant like myself.

I'm also curious, if a woman had a child while the couple are legally separated but the child isn't the husband's, who becomes the legal father of the child?

Mathsgirl (talk) 07:22, 27 October 2015 (UTC)