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English term or phrase:

Matrimonial home or marital home?

English answer:

marital home

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2011-08-12 09:54:20 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Aug 8, 2011 22:19
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English term

Matrimonial home or marital home?

English Law/Patents Law (general) Matrimonial law/USA
I have translated a divorce petition into my native UK English, but the client needs US English.
Which is the correct formal usage here in Court orders? In UK we use "matrimonial home".
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4 +11 marital home

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marital home

The German Civil Code in translation uses matrimonial home, but marital home is common in the US.

The following questions and answers concerning the marital home and divorce can help you understand some of the issues that need to be considered when dividing one of the biggest assets of the marital estate.
http://www.womansdivorce.com/marital-home-and-divorce.html


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Note added at 7 mins (2011-08-08 22:26:20 GMT)
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Florida attorneys-at-law:

http://www.parklanddivorceattorney.com/coral-springs-parklan...
Note from asker:
Many thanks, it's what I suspected to be the case
Many thanks to the 11 other contributors
Peer comment(s):

agree Stephanie Ezrol : see Section 34C Orders to vacate marital home and orders of restraint; notice to … www.malegislature.gov/Laws/Gene...
7 mins
agree Arabic & More : Definitely "marital home."
13 mins
agree Joshua Wolfe
14 mins
agree Veronika McLaren
15 mins
agree Yvonne Gallagher : "marital" for US though "matrimonial" used in Canada
27 mins
agree Jack Doughty : Do we really use matrimonial in the UK? I think marital is more common here too, though I'm no lawyer.
59 mins
I recently did a divorce document and checked the BGB in translation where 'matrimonial home' was used for Ehewohnung, so I assumed it was translated by a British legal expert.
agree Stephen D
1 hr
agree Lydia De Jorge
3 hrs
agree 3ADE shadab
5 hrs
agree Liz Dexter (was Broomfield)
6 hrs
agree airmailrpl : -
8 hrs
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