Divorce is a legal option in most parts of the world, allowing a married couple to formally end a marriage. But the Philippines and Vatican City are two places often cited as exceptions. The Philippines has no general divorce law for most marriages, while its Muslim Personal Law provides specific forms of divorce. In the Vatican's Catholic canon-law framework, a valid and consummated sacramental marriage cannot be dissolved by human authority except by death, although canon law provides for separation, declarations of nullity and certain other forms of dissolution in specific circumstances. Here is what the official legal sources say.
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