How can I find out if my (ex)partner filed for a legal separation or divorce in the UK?
I find out that I can ask court to search for a decree absolute. Will this procedure also find any legal separation or decree nisi?
The only thing you can search for is decree absolute because only that (or death) dissolves a marriage. You cannot search for decree nisi because decree nisi does not end a marriage. Nor is there really such a thing as 'legal separation'. Separation is a matter of fact. People are either separated or they are not. There is no register recording such things. It is true there is something called a decree of judicial separation but those are extremely rare and tend only to be used in cases where both spouses have some sort of objection to divorce.
