The Law Reports (Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division)
[1959] P 43
[PROBATE DIVORCE & ADMIRALTY DIVISION]
MOUNTBATTEN
v.
MOUNTBATTEN.
1958 Oct. 6,
7;
Nov. 24;
Dec. 11.
Nov. 24;
Dec. 11.
Davies J.
Husband and Wife
— Divorce
— Foreign decree
— Conflict of jurisdiction
— Foreign decree recognized lay court of wife's “ordinary residence”
— Decree obtained outside the jurisdiction of that court
— Parties domiciled in England
— Whether decree recognized in England
— Collusion
— Effect
— “Ordinary residence”
— Whether determined by founding proceedings on residence in other State
—
Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 18 (1) (a) (b).
Husband and Wife
— Collusion
— Foreign decree
— Effect on.
Residence
— Divorce
— “Ordinary residence”
— Whether detrained by founding proceedings on residence in other State.