A decision by the state’s highest court this week affirmed that divorce judgments are entered, and therefore don’t need to be docketed, in a case that had the potential to have long-reaching effects on property assets after the end of a marriage.

Attorneys for the defendant in the litigation said Wednesday that if the Court of Appeals had ruled differently, the decision would have opened a “parade of horribles” for both the state’s domestic relations law and couples seeking divorce.

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