ABSTRACT
Since the great watershed of 1969, and the consolidation of the 1969 and 1970 Acts in the Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA) 1973, there have been ongoing initiatives to continue the reform of contemporary divorce law, the last culminating in the Family Law Act (FLA) 1996, most of which has never been brought into force. Thus for the time being the existing law, now largely contained in the MCA 1973, as amended, continues in force, since the Lord Chancellor has now finally indicated that the crucial reforms of substantive law and process in Pt II of the FLA 1996 will not be implemented in their present form (for the background to these key 1973 and 1996 Acts, see Chapter 6).
