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==Foreign divorce orders==
Section 22(1) of the ''[[Divorce Act]]'' deals with the effect in Canada of divorces obtained elsewhere. In a nutshell, if a divorce was properly granted by a foreign country, the parties will also be considered to be divorced here, without the need to obtain a Canadian divorce order.
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.