a “historic” condemnation of by the ECHR

a “historic” condemnation of by the ECHR
a “historic” condemnation of France by the ECHR

It was a “legal battle which lasted for almost ten years”, tell it BBC. On January 23, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a much-anticipated ruling in a divorce case that had “sparked a debate on consent within marriage and women’s rights in .

The couple's divorce was finalized in 2018 “for definitive alteration of the marital bond”, a family affairs judge responsible “that the community of life between the spouses had ceased more than two years ago”, recalls the ECHR in a press release. But the following year, an appeal court this time pronounced the divorce solely due to the ex-wife's faults, finding in particular that her continued refusal of intimate relations constituted a “serious and renewed violation of the duties and obligations of marriage”.

The notion of “conjugal duty” does not exist in French law but several articles of the Civil Code give rise to interpretations by judges, thus creating solid case law. French law “guaranteed since 1990 the right of the spouse to

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