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Of course, there is a small catch. Either spouse must have been "habitually resident" in the country in which the divorce order was made for at least one year before the divorce proceedings started. In other words, if you've lived in Sri Lanka for less than a year before you started your application for divorce, your divorce may not be recognized in Canada even though it's perfectly good under Sri Lankan law. As long as you had lived in Sri Lanka for more than one year before you started your application, a divorce there will be valid here.
Even if a foreign divorce isn't good under Canadian law, everyone will usually accept the fact that the spouse is divorced. Whether the divorce meets Canadian requirements will only ever become an issue if one of the spouses later claims that the divorce is not valid. This can have some fairly serious consequences, mostly when there are unresolved issues about the division of property and pensions. You can find more information about the property entitlements of married spouses in the chapter [[Property & and Debt in Family Law Matters|Property and Debt]].
==The do-it-yourself divorce==