In May 2015, the Law Tribune published a story about a new law that eliminated the 90-day waiting period for a limited number of divorcing parties in select instances. The Judicial Department’s website refers to this type of case as “non-adversarial divorce.”
The problem, however, was that the law was only available to a very small selection of Connecticut’s increasingly large population of divorce cases. Thus, in an editorial published shortly thereafter, this board argued that it was time the Legislature eliminated the outmoded 90-day waiting period for all cases. We offered a number of reasons for this suggestion that will not be repeated here. But it is noteworthy that by October of that year, the Legislature indeed expanded the scope of that law. With the passage of Public Act 15-7, effective October 2015, General Statutes section 46b-67 was amended to add subsection (b) to provide the opportunity for any parties who have resolved all the terms of their divorce or legal separation jointly to petition the court to waive the 90-day waiting period.
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