Delaware § 1502 Purpose; construction

Delaware Statutes

§ 1502 — Purpose; construction

Delaware·Title 13·Ch. 15 DIVORCE AND ANNULMENT

This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are:

(1)To promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage;

(2)To mitigate the potential harm to spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage;

(3)To make the law of divorce more effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for divorce;

(4)To permit dissolution of a marriage where the marriage is irretrievably broken despite the objections of an unwilling spouse;

(5)To award alimony under this chapter to a dependent party but only during the continuance of such dependency;

(6)To award alimony in appropriate

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This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are:

(1) To promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage;

(2) To mitigate the potential harm to spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage;

(3) To make the law of divorce more effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for divorce;

(4) To permit dissolution of a marriage where the marriage is irretrievably broken despite the objections of an unwilling spouse;

(5) To award alimony under this chapter to a dependent party but only during the continuance of such dependency;

(6) To award alimony in appropriate cases so as to encourage parties to become self-supporting;

(7) [Repealed.]

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