Wife cheats on her husband, becomes pregnant and wants to get a divorce before the end of the year of separation. A court has now decided that this is not possible – at least not if she submits the application.

The court went on to say that an appeal “on one’s own serious shortcomings’ was simply not possible. According to the law, a spouse can only submit a hardship application for divorce if the reasons lie ‘in the person of the other spouse’