What is the test for a foreign divorce?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Antonyuk v. Antonyuk, 2020 ONSC 644 (CanLII):
Foreign divorce decrees are presumptively valid. The onus is on the party challenging the validity of the divorce to convince the court that the divorce should not be recognized in Ontario: Essa v. Mekawi, 2014 ONSC 7409, at para. 62.
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