{"id":607,"date":"2017-08-12T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:02:41","slug":"what-is-unreasonable-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-unreasonable-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Unreasonable Behaviour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Unreasonable behaviour\u2019 is one of the most common reasons used for divorce in the UK but this doesn\u2019t mean that it is considered an acceptable reason in all cases.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The law in England and Wales doesn\u2019t currently have a \u2018no fault divorce\u2019 system which means divorces can only happen for one of the following reasons:\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Adultery\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Unreasonable behaviour\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">2 years\u2019 of separation with consent\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">5 years\u2019 separation\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Desertion\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the five methods mentioned above, \u2018unreasonable behaviour\u2019 is the least clear cut but in most cases offers a faster and easier route out of a marriage.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need the consent of your spouse to when using unreasonable behaviour as a reason for divorce and there are no long waits for a petition to be issued.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The only difficulty lies in proving unreasonable behaviour. Unreasonable behaviour can either be violence towards a partner or mental abuse. In either case it must be stated what the nature of the abuse was and the effect of it on the petitioner.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes what the petitioner considers to be unreasonable behaviour is viewed as not unreasonable enough to be used as a reason for divorce. This can effectively trap a person in a marriage for several more years before a divorce can take place.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is important therefore to seek advice early in the process to ensure that a divorce being sought on the basis of unreasonable behaviour is seen as such by the court rather than an attempt to find an easy way out of a marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Unreasonable behaviour\u2019 is one of the most common reasons used for divorce in the UK but this doesn\u2019t mean that it is considered an acceptable reason in all cases.\u00a0\u00a0 The law in England and Wales doesn\u2019t currently have a \u2018no fault divorce\u2019 system which means divorces can only happen for one of the following reasons:\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-unreasonable-behaviour\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Is Unreasonable Behaviour?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[9,19,197],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-bennett","tag-lund-bennett","tag-lund-bennett-law","tag-what-is-unreasonable-behaviour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundbennett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}