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| link = [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/resource/4647 Getting a divorce]
}}Divorce is the legal termination of a marriage by an order of the court. Without a divorce order, a couple will remain married to each other, no matter how long they've been separated from one another, until one or both of the spouses dies.
Although a divorce order represents the formal conclusion of a marriage, the legal consequences of the marriage will continue where children are involved or one spouse is financially dependent on the other. The fact that a couple are divorced doesn't wrap up issues about how children are cared for, or about the payment of child support or spousal support.