Six months to say goodbye Divorce law is short – the Journal

RomeThe divorce law is short. After 41 years since the referendum of 1974 and ten of discussion in Parliament, Italy starts to catch up with other European countries and with the definite yes the House approves a bill that makes it easier and faster farewell between husband and wife. The measure passed in the House with 398 yes, 28 no and six abstentions. In favor voted Pd, Sel, M5S, Sc. Favorable Fi and Ap, but they still left freedom of conscience, as well as the League has however expressed opposition.

It will not be necessary, therefore, to wait three years to say goodbye, regardless of the presence or absence of children. If the separation is consensual, the new law allows to propose the application for divorce after six months, running from the appearance of the couple before the judge. If the court, however, the minimum duration of the period of continuous separation of the spouses that legitimizes the divorce application is reduced from three years to twelve months. The divorce will soon be operating well for the ongoing proceedings and provides news for the division of property: any communion melts when the judge authorizes the husband and wife to live apart. During a phase of long debate in the Senate had been carved out a controversial part of the text, that the so-called flash divorce, which would have allowed the couples who asked to skip the stage of separation.

“Another commitment maintained . Next, is # lavoltabuona “writes in a tweet Council President Matteo Renzi. “This is good policy,” says the forzista Luca d’Alessandro. “The Chamber now writes a page of civilization – adds the correlator of the law – and transform Italy from backward country on ethical issues in the country and mature in step with other European states.” Divorce brief also like to “insiders.” “Finally, the Italian family law comes into Europe,” says the lawyer Gian Ettore Gassani, national president of the Association of Italian lawyers matrimonialisti. Even the lawyer Marcella Conte, an expert in family law, welcomes the news. “About time – claims – that he put his hand to a law so modern yet so old, I do not believe that distorts the meaning of marriage. I consider it crucial because once the spouses separate waiting times for access to divorce are very long and at this time it is difficult torque management especially in cases of great conflict. These three years represent a dead time very complex, in terms of bureaucracy and also human, that weigh a couple situation already compromised. It is an intermediate stage, hybrid, that does not lessen the status of spouse. ” For matrimonialista Patrizia Mittiga Zandri the new law is an important step to reduce the conflict between spouses and also to reduce the cost of divorce. “Long time between separation and divorce – says lawyer – they merely complicate matters, often women in this period recline, maybe even try to get a job so they know that they will be maintained, and the children are tossed from side to ‘other. While divorce must still give a final structure to the family situation. Practical in the act, then, with the times of justice, we must see if it will be possible to meet the schedule. “