Time permitting, the Maryland General Assembly appears poised to pass legislation that would enable married couples without children to divorce through settlement agreement and forgo waiting the state’s one-year separation requirement before terminating a marriage. Sen. Robert A. “Bobby” Zirkin, the bill’s chief sponsor, has called the measure a sensible way for couples to end their marriages when they can reach amicable agreements on the division of property without the acrimony of a trial or being legally bound to each other for 12 months.
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