Divorce is the legal dissolution of a valid marriage. To obtain a divorce, one spouse must sue the other in the [http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/supreme_court/ Supreme Court], and in general at least one of the spouses must have been "ordinarily resident" in British Columbia for the preceding year. A spouse must prove that the marital relationship has broken down in order to qualify for a divorce order, and a marriage may have broken down for one of three reasons: