Reflections about unilateral divorce in Colombia

Abstract

This article is based on the regulations existing in Colombia about marriage and divorce. Its primary purpose is to open the discussion and the analysis of unilateral divorce in Colombia, which, despite not being enshrined in the Civil Code and the regulations that amend and supplement there, for those who are married by a religious rite which than have civil effects given through concordat. The omission of this possibility for civil marriage imposes an unequal burden to people who have chosen this way to form a family.