Grave Hardship in United Kingdom

Definition of Grave Hardship

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Grave Hardship : (in divorce proceedings)

If a divorce petition is based on a five-year separation, the respondent may oppose the grant of the *decree nisi on the ground that the dissolution of the marriage will result in grave financial or other hardship and that it would be wrong in all the circumstances to dissolve the marriage. Such applications rarely succeed.

See also divorce.