Paper divorce

Last updated December 03, 2025

A paper divorce is a case in which a couple obtains a legal divorce but continues to live together as before. It may be done for financial reasons, such as to isolate medical debts to only fall on the ill partner.^[1] If the divorce is fraudulent, it is called a sham divorce.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Frommer, Benjamin (2020). "Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs, and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". In Edgar, Adrienne; Frommer, Benjamin (eds.). Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 47–82. ISBN 978-1-4962-0211-6.
↑ Statsky, William P. (4 March 2020). Family Law. Cengage Learning. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-337-91761-2.
↑ "The sham marriages – and divorces – built on China's property market". South China Morning Post. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

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[1] Frommer, Benjamin (2020). "Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs, and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". In Edgar, Adrienne; Frommer, Benjamin (eds.). Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 47–82. ISBN 978-1-4962-0211-6.

[2] Statsky, William P. (4 March 2020). Family Law. Cengage Learning. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-337-91761-2.

[3] "The sham marriages – and divorces – built on China's property market". South China Morning Post. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

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