Uniform Divorce Recognition Act

This act governs whether a divorce granted in another state will be recognized as valid within the enacting state, directed particularly at decrees obtained ex parte — that is, in a proceeding in which only one spouse participated — where both parties were residents of the enacting state. Its central mechanism is an evidentiary rule under which specified circumstances count as prima facie evidence that a spouse remained domiciled in the enacting state, since domicile is what supports another state's authority to grant the divorce in the first place. It also carries a construction clause directing that its provisions be interpreted so as to keep the law uniform across the states that adopt it.

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