Last week the Daily Mail reported that singer and actress Billie Piper and her ex-husband Laurence Fox were granted a ‘quickie’ divorce in the High Court in London in 2016. The hearing was said to have lasted just fifty seconds.
As we have explained here previously, there is no such thing as a ‘quickie’ divorce. There is only one divorce procedure, and it applies to everyone, including celebrities. Despite this, the myth of the ‘quickie’ divorce persists in popular culture, particularly in the media.
Where a divorce is undefended, as in this case, the pronouncement of the decree nisi is simply read out by the judge. Such a pronouncement will usually only take a matter of seconds. However, the procedure that the divorce has to follow is the same for all uncontested divorces, and usually takes several months.
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Image of Billie Piper by Florida Supercon from Ft. Lauderdale, USA (MCCC_00790) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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