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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Nearly 80 former couples thought they were divorced - thanks to a Family Court blunder they were wrong

The government has had to track down 79 couples who made mistakes in their divorce applications - (Getty Images)

A judge has given nearly 80 separated couples a chance to rethink their breakups thanks to a bizarre administrative blunder that saw their divorces wrongly approved.

The 79 former pairs had made a mistake in their divorce applications two years ago that wasn’t picked up by the courts when the break-ups were approved some months later. The mistakes were only later noticed by officials in April 2024.

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