Divorice, timescales -adultry and unreasonable behaviour?

Adultary is hard to prove - he will have to divorce her for that but she will have to admit it to make it easier. He could divorce her for unreasonable behaviour too with an inappropriate relationship as part of that - easier as not so much proof needed but again she would need to not really contest it. Both of those can be done immediately and will take 4-6m. Otherwise for no blame you have to be separated for 2yrs before starting.

Surely they'll have to actually separate before they can divorce? They can't do it if still cohabiting. (Well not in Scotland they couldn't anyway). How on earth can they establish their marriage has irretrievably broken down otherwise? I understand there may be difficulties re children/money but these would presumably need to be sorted in the fullness of time anyway.

It is up to him if he wants to go for adultery, and up to her if she admits it, but if they want to try and make it as amicable as possible they'd probably be better just divorcing on the basis of the 2 years (or whatever it is) separation rather than blaming each other.

Hang on - just reread it - so they decided that the marriage was over, started living separate lives (albeit in the same house) and THEN she commenced a new relationship - so the marriage hasn't broken down because of the adultery at all, has it? It had broken down before that.

She really needs proper legal advice on this.

He could divorce her on grounds of adultry and as long as she doesn't contest it, it will take 4-6 months.

My PILs are in a similar position. They were advised to divorce on grounds of unreasonable behaviour, as it was easier due to the proof aspect. MIL didn't want to do the two year seperation. They still live together in the same house (in England), MIL filed for divorce in February and it's still going through but they have a quite complicated financial situation, and I also think there has been dragging of heels with getting paperwork etc.

We applied in the March & it went through by the September. We did it via an online divorce company...I think it could probably have been even quicker by using a solicitor.

We filed it under adultary by my exH to get it through quickly (this wasn't the reason - supposedly...but now I know better).

Hope it runs smoothly

Thanks for the replies. I just needed a rough understanding of the process that awaits them.

Rony.

Although my husband had committed adultery, we were divorced on the grounds of an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.

Adultery would have taken too long and proven too messy.

This too roughly one year as he had gone to live elsewhere and getting the documents signed was a friggin nightmare!

You can still file for divorce on the grounds of adultry. They are still married so technically adultry has occured. If they are prepared to deal with it amicably and she does not contest adultry it is the quickest method of divorce.