What is the test for validity of a foreign divorce?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ali v. Ibrahim, 2019 ONSC 300 (CanLII):
At common law, there is a rebuttable presumption in favour of the validity of foreign divorces. The onus rests with the person challenging the validity of the foreign divorce to demonstrate it was not properly obtained: Wilson v. Kovalev, supra, at para. 10.
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