New divorce laws required over loophole
The Supreme Court judgment related to the recognition here of foreign divorces obtained before 1986, the year a law was enacted abolishing the dependent domicile of a married woman.
The five-judge court ruled, by four to one, that Irish law does not recognise the validity of a foreign divorce lawfully granted before October 1986 in a country where neither party to the relevant marriage was domiciled at the date divorce proceedings were instituted but where one party was resident.
