That was the exact questioned I was asked....and my answer was I don’t know the legal answer, but if one of the partners of these ‘two’ didn’t get divorced, then that should tell you that the other really didn’t care about you all that much....
Exactly, the reason my aunt left her first husband the dude was handsome. Well this handsome man never bother to provide for his kids. My aunt had to get assistance and my mother would bring food to her or she would come over and take food. My parents helped her because of the no good to nothing “handsome” guy was just pure lazy, yet he would wear gold chains.
My parents consider my aunt first husband a good man. A hard worker and just plain nice. Nope my aunt didn’t want a “Nice” man she prefer the good looking one even though the good looking man would beat the crap out of her. My cousins would call to say to my mom that their father was beating the crap out of their mom. Well they stayed together until my aunt’s death.