Where a legal separation has been decreed the court may afterwards decree an absolute divorce between the parties for any cause arising since the first decree and sufficient to entitle the complaining party to the second decree.

History

Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 561, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1

Oct. 19, 2002, D.C. Law 14-207, § 2(d), 49 DCR 7827

Effect of Amendments

D.C. Law 14-207 substituted “legal separation” for “divorce from bed and board”.

Prior Codifications

1973 Ed., § 16-906.

1981 Ed., § 16-906.