Del. Code tit. 13 § 1502

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 531
Section 1502 - Purpose; construction

This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are:

(1) To promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage;
(2) To mitigate the potential harm to spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage;
(3) To make the law of divorce more effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for divorce;
(4) To permit dissolution of a marriage where the marriage is irretrievably broken despite the objections of an unwilling spouse;
(5) To award alimony under this chapter to a dependent party but only during the continuance of such dependency;
(6) To award alimony in appropriate cases so as to encourage parties to become self-supporting;
(7) [Repealed.]

13 Del. C. § 1502

59 Del. Laws, c. 350, § 1; 61 Del. Laws, c. 204, §1; 62 Del. Laws, c. 168, §1.;