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(7) [Repealed.]
59 Del. Laws, c. 350,
§
1;
61 Del. Laws, c. 204,
§
1;
62 Del. Laws, c. 168,
§
1;
Notes of Decisions
Bruce E.M. v. Dorothea A.M., 455 A.2d 866 (Del. 1983).
“Former 13 Del.C. § 1502(7) stated that except for awards of temporary alimony, an underlying purpose of the law was to deny alimony to a divorce petitioner who thereby rejected the respondent as a spouse.”
Gregory J. M. v. Carolyn A. M., 442 A.2d 1373 (Del. 1982).
“It implicitly recognized the disparity in incomes, the rehabilitative aspects of alimony contemplated by 13 Del.C. § 1502(6), 4 and *1376 the comparative economic situátións of the parties over the years as each reaches retirement age.”
Adelaide A.G. v. Peter W.G., 458 A.2d 702 (Del. 1983).
“It implicitly recognized the disparity in incomes, the rehabilitative aspects of alimony contemplated by 13 Del.C. § 1502(6), and the comparative economic situations of the parties over the years as each reaches retirement age.”
Wife D. v. Husband D., 294 A.2d 700 (Del. 1972).
“13 Del.C. § 1502 requires that the true cause of the complaint shall be verified by the affidavit of the petitioner that “the facts stated are true”.”
13 Del. C. § 1502(6): 2 cases
Gregory J. M. v. Carolyn A. M., 442 A.2d 1373 (Del. 1982).
“It implicitly recognized the disparity in incomes, the rehabilitative aspects of alimony contemplated by 13 Del.C. § 1502(6), 4 and *1376 the comparative economic situátións of the parties over the years as each reaches retirement age.”
Adelaide A.G. v. Peter W.G., 458 A.2d 702 (Del. 1983).
“It implicitly recognized the disparity in incomes, the rehabilitative aspects of alimony contemplated by 13 Del.C. § 1502(6), and the comparative economic situations of the parties over the years as each reaches retirement age.”
13 Del. C. § 1502(7): 1 case
Bruce E.M. v. Dorothea A.M., 455 A.2d 866 (Del. 1983).
“Former 13 Del.C. § 1502(7) stated that except for awards of temporary alimony, an underlying purpose of the law was to deny alimony to a divorce petitioner who thereby rejected the respondent as a spouse.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.