living separate and apart

living separate and apart
Exists where the spouses have come to a parting of the ways and have no present intention of resuming marital relations and taking up life together under the same roof, not where they are residing temporarily in different places for economic or social reasons. Woodall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, C.C.A.9, 105 F.2d 474, 477.
This is a no-fault ground for divorce in many states when the spouses have lived apart for the statutorily prescribed period

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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