A court order for the legal separation of a married couple.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Supreme Court ruled that the 1989 Judicial Separation Act is constitutional, when it dismissed the appeal of a Cork man whose wife obtained a separation order and had him barred from the family home.
- My Grandmother obtained a separation order against my Grandfather on the grounds of cruelty.
- In 1878, the magistrates courts were given jurisdiction to grant a separation order where a husband had been convicted of assault of his wife, and to order him to pay her maintenance.
- She obtained a separation order from her husband for cruelty of an unusual kind.
- The Magistrates granted her a separation order and 10s per week.