The House of Representatives approved this Tuesday, in the last debate, a project that allows divorce unilaterally, which will become law once it is reconciled in Congress and sanctioned by the President Gustavo Petro.
The project received 89 votes in favor and 12 against and with it, the representative explained to the Katherine Miranda Cameraa new cause for divorce is included, which is “the free will of the parties, which is when one of the parties does not want to continue with the marriage, love is over“.
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Now, whoever seeks a divorce, “You do not have to do it for reasons of domestic violence, alcoholism or things like that, and you do not have to prove two years of not living together.“explained Miranda, speaker of the initiative.
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The Green Alliance congresswoman added: “Simply, from the moment that one of the parties wishes to separate, a process begins before a judge, taking into account that absolutely all guarantees will be maintained in terms of distribution of assets, protection of the spouse and also of the children“.
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Before the approval of the project, to get divorced in Colombia a person had to prove that there was extramarital sexual relations; failure to fulfill the duties that the spouses have; outrages and cruel treatment; alcoholism; drug addiction, and a serious or incurable disease or abnormality.
They are also grounds for divorce in Colombia “any conduct of one of the spouses tending to corrupt or pervert the other“; demonstrate that they have not lived together for two years and the consent of the parties before a judge that they want to separate, according to Miranda’s team.
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He conservative representative Luis Miguel López sought to archive the bill, since it considers that it cannot be “legislate to facilitate the breakup“.
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“Marriage is a heritage of society, it is a common good, it implies society (…) it is not an individual issue, so much so that if the family is bad, society is bad“said the congressman, who stated that “legislate to strengthen the union“.
EFE
