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Co-respondent
In English law, a co-respondent is, in general, a respondent to a petition, or other legal proceeding, along with another or others, or a person called upon to answer in some other way.

Divorce

More particularly, since the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, in a petition for divorce on the ground of adultery, a co-respondent is a person charged with misconduct with the petitioner's spouse. Co-respondent shoes is an expression, meaning unusually patterned or coloured men's shoes that are easily remembered, for example, when left outside the hotel room in which the adultery may be taking place.

As of 2007, alleged parties to a spouse's adultery must be made co-respondents unless they are not named in the petition or the court directs otherwise.

In practice, naming such parties in a divorce petition is discouraged as it may become a barrier to reconciliation. Such parties are only commonly named if the petitioner is seeking costs against them or has some other particular reason.

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co-respondent
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Anthea is named in Bovey divorce case.(News)
May 20, 1999; TV presenter Anthea Turner was yesterday named in a public court list as the other woman in a high-profile divorce. Mrs Della...
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Jan 09, 1994; Brian Johnston, who died on Wednesday, in the co-respondent shoes that he always wore to the cricket. He did more than anyone to...
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Nicholson named in divorce action.(News)
Dec 15, 2000; HIGH-PROFILE: Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has been named as co-respondent in a divorce action. See story on Page 3
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May 03, 1997; Over the past week I have been considering divorce, and naming as a co-respondent the Ariston dishwasher. The problem was, it...
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