legal separation

Questions about legal separation

What does legal separation mean?

legal separation means "a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for legal separation?

Close synonyms include judicial separation, separation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal separation a common word?

legal separation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.