nisi

A decree nisi was due to be granted in March 2021.

His children cried, last August, when he announced he would be leaving, when he filed the paperwork to complete his decree nisi, and that was enough to persuade him to stay.

And it replaces the terms "decree nisi" and "decree absolute" with "conditional order" and "final order".

But while the arrangements are due for review in a year, the deal looks more like a decree nisi than a trial separation.

Normally an “enquiry agent” would “call around with photographs, inspect the register and take a statement, which would eventually satisfy the court’s requirements for an unopposed decree nisi.”