Lawyer and her ex-husband can't vacate divorce after reconciling, state supreme court says
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A New Hampshire lawyer and her one-time husband can’t vacate their July 2014 divorce after reconciling, the New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled.
The court ruled (PDF) on Dec. 2 that it didn’t have statutory authority to vacate the divorce, the Associated Press reports. Although the lawyer “may be correct that a majority of jurisdictions have held that a court may vacate a divorce decree upon agreement of the parties, in most cases courts do so based upon specific statutory authorization,” the court said.
The court ruled in the case of lawyer Terrie Harman and Thomas McCarron. The couple had been married more than 24 years when they were granted an uncontested divorce in July 2014 on the basis of irreconcilable differences. They filed a joint petition in March 2015 seeking to vacate the divorce decree because they had reconciled.
According to AP, neither spouse returned calls “seeking the answer to the question: Why not just remarry?” The New England Appellate Blog also covered the case.
