Can You Still Get Divorced if You Slept With Your Ex?
Hi, I’m Tulsa divorce attorney Palmer Johnson and welcome to my video series where I answer frequently asked questions I get from my family law clients. And today’s question is a little bit light hearted but one that comes up from time to time and I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about it so I’m going to address it. And it usually goes something like this, we’re sort of halfway through a divorce and the client says to me, oh my gosh, I slept with my ex, does that mean we have to start this whole process over? And I’m usually like, no, no, not sure, well I heard you, if you slept with them then you can’t get a divorce.
Well it might be confusing to both parties and there could be some emotional reasons why you wouldn’t do that but from a legal standpoint, that’s not going to prevent you from asking the court for a no fault divorce. Either party would be entitled to it and you know, based on the grounds of incompatibility regardless of what your private nighttime activities are. So no, it’s not going to prevent you from getting a divorce. It could create a myriad of other issues in your divorce action and I wouldn’t recommend it but as far as being an all out barrier to achieving the ends, no, it’s not and it’s not something that you would necessarily need to disclose either way, you know, just because it happens on one occasion.
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