ABSTRACT
With the exception of Jamaica and Barbados, and the qualified exception of Antigua and Barbuda and St Kitts and Nevis, the divorce regimes of the various CC jurisdictions are patterned either on a repealed version of English divorce laws or current English divorce law. In the case of Barbados and Jamaica, the divorce regime is modelled on the Australian divorce laws. However regardless of the divorce regime currently in operation in the respective CC jurisdictions, the CC jurisdictions, as former British colonies, either through reception, or passage of indigenous legislation, all share a similar divorce history premised on the divorce laws of England, a brief history of which will be examined.
