Part IIU.K. Recognition of Divorces, Annulments and Legal Separations

SupplementalU.K.

53 Effect of divorces and annulments on wills.E+W

In subsection (1) of section 18A of the M1Wills Act 1837 (effect of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage on wills)—

(a)after the word “court” there shall be inserted the words “of civil jurisdiction in England and Wales”; and

(b)for the words “or declares it void” there shall be substituted the words “or his marriage is dissolved or annulled and the divorce or annulment is entitled to recognition in England and Wales by virtue of Part II of the Family Law Act 1986”.

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