Article 55

ELI5— what this means for you

Legal separation does not end a marriage — both spouses remain married and cannot remarry. But it allows them to live separately and divide their property. Grounds include: repeated physical violence or morally degrading conduct, drug addiction, habitual alcoholism, lesbianism or homosexuality, bigamy, sexual infidelity, an attempt against the life of the other spouse, abandonment for more than 1 year, and final conviction for a crime with imprisonment of more than 6 years.